Motor cortex excitability during unilateral muscle activity

Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 477-484

  Christova, M I ^a   Pondev, N G ^a   Christova, L G ^a   Wolf, W ^b   Dengler, R ^c   Kossev, A R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Bulgaria)

^b BUNDESWEHR UNIVERSITY MUNICH   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Co activation; Intracortical facilitation (ICF); Intracortical inhibition (ICI); Motor evoked potential (MEP); Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HAND; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33748154676     PISSN: 10506411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jelekin.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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