Human brain activation during sustained and intermittent submaximal fatigue muscle contractions: An fMRI study

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 300-312

  Liu, Jing Z ^a,b   Shan, Zu Y ^a   Zhang, Lu D ^a,c   Sahgal, Vinod ^a   Brown, Robert W ^b   Yue, Guang H ^a,c  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSE ORGAN; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0038500857     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00821.2002     Document Type: Article

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