Changes in corticospinal excitability and the direction of evoked movements during motor preparation: A TMS study

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Van Elswijk, Gijs ^a,b   Schot, Willemijn D ^c   Stegeman, Dick F ^a,c   Overeem, Sebastiaan ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; THUMB; TRAINING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FINGER; HAND; IMITATION; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REACTION TIME; THUMB; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 47249093768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-9-51     Document Type: Article

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