Modulation of corticospinal excitability and intracortical inhibition during motor imagery is task-dependent

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 351-358

  Stinear, Cathy M ^a   Byblow, Winston D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Intracortical inhibition; Motor imagery; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGINATION; INDEX FINGER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REACTIVE INHIBITION; RECORDING; REST; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THUMB; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 3843139407     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-1851-z     Document Type: Article

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