Internally Simulated Movement Sensations during Motor Imagery Activate Cortical Motor Areas and the Cerebellum

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 3683-3691

  Naito, Eiichi ^a   Kochiyama, Takanori ^a   Kitada, Ryo ^a   Nakamura, Satoshi ^b   Matsumura, Michikazu ^a   Yonekura, Yoshiharu ^b   Sadato, Norihiro ^c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Cingulate motor area; CMA; Dorsal premotor cortex; Kinesthetic illusion; Motor imagery; PET; PMD; Positron emission tomography; SMA; Supplementary motor area; Wrist movement

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; OXYGEN 15;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID CLOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TENDON; WRIST; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; HAND; ILLUSION; IMAGINATION; KINESTHESIA; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SCINTISCANNING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VASCULARIZATION; VIBRATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBELLUM; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; HAND; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; IMAGINATION; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VIBRATION; WRIST;

EID: 0036584572     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-09-03683.2002     Document Type: Article

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