Slowing fastest finger movements of the dominant hand with low-frequency rTMS of the hand area of the primary motor cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 196-203

  Jancke L ^a   Steinmetz, H ^b   Benilow, S ^b   Ziemann, U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Fast finger tapping; Paced finger tapping; rTMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VELOCITY;

ADULT; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CEREBELLUM; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 1642358156     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1719-7     Document Type: Article

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