Functional connectivity between secondary and primary motor areas underlying hand-foot coordination

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 414-422

  Byblow, Winston D ^a   Coxon, James P ^a   Stinear, Cathy M ^a   Fleming, Melanie K ^a   Williams, Garry ^a   Müller, J Florian M ^b   Ziemann, Ulf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; HAND FOOT COORDINATION; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FOOT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34447567170     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00325.2007     Document Type: Article

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