Asymmetries of long-latency intracortical inhibition in motor cortex and handedness

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 172, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 449-453

  Hammond, Geoffrey R ^a   Garvey, Carrie Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dexterity; Handedness; LICI; Long latency intracortical inhibition; M1; Motor cortex; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HAND FUNCTION; HAND MUSCLE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33745584099     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0349-2     Document Type: Article

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