The effect of age on task-related modulation of interhemispheric balance

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-66

  Talelli, P ^a   Waddingham, W ^a   Ewas, A ^a   Rothwell, J C ^a   Ward, N S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Interhemispheric inhibition; Motor system; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REST; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 40149093265     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1205-8     Document Type: Article

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