The effect of simultaneous contractions of ipsilateral muscles on changes in corticospinal excitability induced by paired associative stimulation (PAS)

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 445, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-11

  Kennedy, Niamh C ^a   Carson, Richard G ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crossed facilitation; Interlimb; Mirror movement; Motor cortex; Neural plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 52949124401     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.08.064     Document Type: Article

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