Laterality of interhemispheric inhibition depends on handedness

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 195-203

  Baumer T ^a   Dammann, E ^a   Bock, F ^a   Kloppel S ^a   Siebner, H R ^b   Munchau A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION KINETICS; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; REST; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34250008537     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-0866-7     Document Type: Article

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