Sex differences in spinal excitability during observation of bipedal locomotion

NeuroReport

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 887-890

  Cheng, Yawei ^a   Decety, Jean ^g   Lin, Ching Po ^b   Hsieh, Jen Chuen ^d   Hung, Daisy ^c,f   Tzeng, Ovid J L ^c,e  

^a TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b Institute of Neuroscience   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e INSTITUTE OF LINGUISTICS   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipedal; Hoffmann reflex; Mirror neuron system; Sex; Spinal

Indexed keywords

ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOOT; HEEL; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL NERVE; TOE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 34249087131     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3280ebb486     Document Type: Article

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