Effects of volitional contraction on intracortical inhibition and facilitation in the human motor cortex

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 586, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 5147-5159

  Ortu, Enzo ^a,b   Deriu, Franca ^b   Suppa, Antonio ^a,c   Tolu, Eusebio ^b   Rothwell, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEOUS MUSCLE; INTRACORTICAL FACILITATION; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; REST; SHORT INTERVAL INTRACORTICAL FACILITATION; SHORT INTERVAL INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEURAL INHIBITION;

EID: 55049132078     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2008.158956     Document Type: Article

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