Functional demanded excitability changes of human hand motor area

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 141-148

  Ni, Zhen ^a   Takahashi, Makoto ^a   Yamashita, Takamasa ^a   Liang, Nan ^a   Tanaka, Yoshiyuki ^a   Tsuji, Toshio ^a   Yahagi, Susumu ^b   Kasai, Tatsuya ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA SHUDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abductor digit minimi (ADM) muscle; Dynamic and static muscle contraction; First dorsal interosseous (FDI); Motor evoked potential (MEP); Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33645128155     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0201-0     Document Type: Article

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