High-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the hand area of the primary motor cortex disturbs predictive grip force scaling

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2392-2396

  Nowak, Dennis A ^a,b   Voss, Martin ^a   Huang, Ying Zu ^a,c   Wolpert, Daniel M ^a   Rothwell, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Grip force; Internal model; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND; HAND FUNCTION; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE FORCE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 27844542229     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04425.x     Document Type: Article

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