Motor imagery of foot dorsiflexion and gait: Effects on corticospinal excitability

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2519-2527

  Bakker, M ^a   Overeem, S ^a   Snijders, A H ^a   Borm, G ^b   van Elswijk, G ^a   Toni, I ^a,c   Bloem, B R ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Foot dorsiflexion; Gait; Motor imagery; Motor evoked potentials; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RETINA IMAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WALKING;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOOT; GAIT; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54149114300     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.07.282     Document Type: Article

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