Motor imagery of phasic thumb abduction temporally and spatially modulates corticospinal excitability

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 909-914

  Stinear, Cathy M ^a   Byblow, Winston D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Corticospinal excitability; F wave; Motor imagery; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; MODULATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RECORDING; REST; TASK PERFORMANCE; THENAR; THUMB; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0038398986     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(02)00373-5     Document Type: Article

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