Effect of motion imagery to counter rest-induced suppression of F-wave as a measure of anterior horn cell excitability

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1346-1352

  Taniguchi, S ^a   Kimura, J ^b   Yamada, T ^b   Ichikawa, H ^c   Hara, M ^d   Fujisawa, R ^e   Shimizu, H ^f   Tani, T ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior horn cell; F wave; Motion imagery; Motor neuron excitability; Volitional relaxation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR HORN CELL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; IMMOBILIZATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MALE; MOTION; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; REACTION TIME; RELAXATION;

EID: 42749086288     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.11.179     Document Type: Article

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