Modulations in corticomotor excitability during passive upper-limb movement: Is there a cortical influence?

Brain Research

Volumn 943, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 263-275

  Lewis, Gwyn N ^a   Byblow, Winston D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ia afferent; Motor cortex; Passive movement; Sensorimotor integration; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMB MOVEMENT; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; ARM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURAL INHIBITION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REACTION TIME; REFLEX, STRETCH; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 0037067786     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)02699-9     Document Type: Article

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