Increased corticospinal excitability during direct observation of self-movement and indirect observation with a mirror box

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 419, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 108-112

  Funase, Kozo ^a   Tabira, Takayuki ^a   Higashi, Toshio ^b   Liang, Nan ^c   Kasai, Tatsuya ^c  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY OF HUMAN SERVICES   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticospinal excitability; Mirror box; Mirror neuron system; SEP; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HAND; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34248229212     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.04.025     Document Type: Article

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