Cerebellar activation during leg withdrawal reflex conditioning: An fMRI study

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 849-857

  Dimitrova, Albena ^a   Kolb, Florian P ^b   Elles, Hans Gerd ^a   Maschke, Matthias ^a   Gerwig, Marcus ^a   Gizewski, Elke ^a   Timmann, Dagmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Cerebellum; Human; Limb flexion response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LEG; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NOCICEPTORS; REFLEX;

EID: 1442274666     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2003.11.030     Document Type: Article

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