Age and Features of Movement Influence Motor Overflow

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1735-1739

  Bodwell, Julie A ^a   Mahurin, Roderick K ^a   Waddle, Sally ^a   Price, Robert ^b   Cramer, Steven C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Compensation; Healthy; Mirror movements; Motor overflow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR OVERFLOW; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPERKINESIS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0347381027     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2003.51557.x     Document Type: Article

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