Modulation of corticospinal excitability during lengthening and shortening contractions in the first dorsal interosseus muscle of humans

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 374-384

  Sekiguchi, Hirofumi ^a,c   Kohno, Yutaka ^a   Hirano, Tatsuya ^b   Akai, Masami ^a   Nakajima, Yasoichi ^a   Nakazawa, Kimitaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

^b SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c Japan Association for the Advancement of Medical Equipment   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33947324824     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0743-9     Document Type: Article

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