On primary cortical hand representation in the left and right hemispheres

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2421-2423

  Rossini, Paolo M ^a,b,c   Tecchio, Franca ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FINGER; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND FUNCTION; HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 54249102973     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.07.006     Document Type: Editorial

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