Disinhibition of upper limb motor area by voluntary contraction of the lower limb muscle

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 419-430

  Tazoe, Toshiki ^a   Endoh, Takashi ^a,b   Nakajima, Tsuyoshi ^a   Sakamoto, Masanori ^a   Komiyama, Tomoyoshi ^a,c  

^a TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Motor cortex; Remote muscle contraction; Silent period; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; DORSAL INTEROSSEOUS MUSCLE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG ISCHEMIA; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RESPONSE TIME; TENDON; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ULNAR NERVE; VIBRATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEURAL INHIBITION; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 33847157237     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0686-1     Document Type: Article

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