Organization of ipsilateral excitatory and inhibitory pathways in the human motor cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1256-1264

  Chen, Robert ^a,b   Yung, Derek ^a   Li, Jie Yuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION KINETICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REST;

EID: 0037338791     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00950.2002     Document Type: Article

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