Concurrent excitation of the opposite motor cortex during transcranial magnetic stimulation to activate the abdominal muscles

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 132-139

  Tsao, Henry ^a   Galea, Mary P ^b   Hodges, Paul W ^a  

^a Injury and Health   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abdominal muscle; Corticospinal pathways; Motor cortex; Motor evoked potential; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 42749086917     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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