Short interval intracortical inhibition and facilitation during the silent period in human

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 583, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 971-982

  Ni, Zhen ^a   Gunraj, Carolyn ^a   Chen, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; CONDITIONING; DORSAL INTEROSSEOUS MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; MOTOR THRESHOLD; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; REST; SHORT INTERVAL INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLITION;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR;

EID: 34548728082     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.135749     Document Type: Article

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