Age reduces cortical reciprocal inhibition in humans

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 322-329

  Hortobágyi, Tibor ^a   Del Olmo, M Fernandez ^b,c   Rothwell, John C ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

H reflex; Motor cortex; Muscle; Spinal cord; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELBOW; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXTENSOR CARPI RADIALIS; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR CARPI RADIALIS; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33646889105     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-005-0274-9     Document Type: Article

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