Cortical and spinal motor excitability during the premovement EMG silent period prior to rapid voluntary movement in humans

Brain Research

Volumn 949, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 178-187

  Aoki, Hisashi ^a   Tsukahara, Reiko ^a   Yabe, Kyonosuke ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND SPORT SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

H reflex; MEP; Premovement silent period; Voluntary movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0037072559     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)02979-7     Document Type: Article

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