Postexercise facilitation of motor evoked potentials elicited by ipsilateral voluntary contraction

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1710-1712

  Brasil Neto, Joaquim P ^a   Araújo, Valéria P ^a   Carneiro, Cláudio R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Magnetic stimulation; Motor cortex; Motor evoked potentials; Supplementary motor area

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; HEMISPHERE; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOREARM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 0345045490     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199912)22:12<1710::AID-MUS14>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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