Neural correlates of age-related changes in cortical neurophysiology

NeuroImage

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1772-1781

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

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; fMRI; Hand grip; Interhemispheric inhibition; Motor cortex; Premotor cortex; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NERVE NET; OXYGEN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 41649086292     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.01.039     Document Type: Article

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