Reduced cortical activity during maximal bilateral contractions of the index finger

NeuroImage

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 16-27

  Post, Marijn ^a   van Duinen, Hiske ^a   Steens, Anneke ^a   Renken, Remco ^a   Kuipers, Bart ^a   Maurits, Natasha ^a   Zijdewind, Inge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33846924354     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.11.050     Document Type: Article

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