Changes in median nerve somatosensory transmission and motor output following transient deafferentation of the radial nerve in humans

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1477-1488

  Murphy, B A ^a   Taylor, H Haavik ^a   Wilson, S A ^b   Knight, J A ^a   Mathers, K M ^a   Schug, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b CHRISTCHURCH POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain plasticity; Deafferentation; Motor evoked potentials; Radial nerve; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0041344618     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(03)00131-7     Document Type: Article

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