Excitability changes in resting forearm muscles during voluntary foot movements depend on hand position: A neural substrate for hand-foot isodirectional coupling

Brain Research

Volumn 1022, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 117-125

  Borroni, Paola ^a   Cerri, Gabriella ^a   Baldissera, Fausto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability modulation; H reflex; Hand prono supination; Handa foot isodirectional coupling; Voluntary movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOOT; FOREARM; HAND; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT; FOREARM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; H-REFLEX; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REST; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 4444327015     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2004.07.003     Document Type: Article

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