Role of the right dorsal premotor cortex in "physiological" mirror EMG activity

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 175, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 633-640

  Giovannelli, F ^a   Borgheresi, A ^a   Balestrieri, F ^a   Ragazzoni, A ^a   Zaccara, G ^a   Cincotta, M ^a   Ziemann, U ^b  

^a SANTA MARIA ANNUNZIATA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dorsal premotor cortex; Mirror movements; Motor control; Motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Unimanual movements

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR POLLICIS MUSCLE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33750807742     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0581-9     Document Type: Article

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