Changes in corticospinal motor excitability induced by non-motor linguistic tasks

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 218-225

  Papathanasiou, I ^a,b,c   Filipovic S R ^a,b,d   Whurr, R ^a,b   Rothwell, J C ^a,b   Jahanshahi, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d FRENCHAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Laterality; Linguistic functions; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAWING; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; READING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRITING;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; READING; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 1642497448     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1648-5     Document Type: Article

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