Unimanual muscle activation increases interhemispheric inhibition from the active to the resting hemisphere

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 445, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 209-213

  Vercauteren, Katrien ^a   Pleysier, Tine ^a   Van Belle, Liesbet ^a   Swinnen, Stephan P ^a   Wenderoth, Nicole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Interhemispheric inhibition; Motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; REACTION TIME; REST; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 53249083850     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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