Excitability changes in human corticospinal projections to forearm muscles during voluntary movement of ipsilateral foot

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 539, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 903-911

  Baldissera, Fausto ^a,d   Borroni, Paola ^b   Cavallari, Paolo ^c   Cerri, Gabriella ^e  

^a Istituto di Fisiologia Umana II   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Medicina Interna   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOOT; FOREARM; HAND; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; BRAIN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FOOT; FOREARM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037088819     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2001.013282     Document Type: Article

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