Cortical voluntary activation can be reliably measured in human wrist extensors using transcranial magnetic stimulation

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1130-1138

  Lee, Michael ^a   Gandevia, Simon C ^b   Carroll, Timothy J ^a  

^a University of Sydney   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Neural drive; TMS; Twitch interpolation; Twitch potentiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE POTENTIAL; MUSCLE TWITCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRIST;

EID: 41449088218     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.12.018     Document Type: Article

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