Further evidence for excitability changes in human primary motor cortex during ipsilateral voluntary contractions

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 433, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-140

  Liang, Nan ^a   Murakami, Tsuneji ^a   Funase, Kozo ^a   Narita, Tomohiro ^a   Kasai, Tatsuya ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intracortical facilitation (ICF); Ipsilateral primary motor cortex; Motor evoked potential (MEP); Motor imagery; Short intracortical inhibition (SICI); Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FINGER; FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEOUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 39649105018     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.12.058     Document Type: Article

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