Excitability changes in human hand motor area dependent on afferent inputs induced by different motor tasks

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 158, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 527-532

  Takahashi, Makoto ^a   Sugawara, Kenichi ^b   Hayashi, Shikako ^a   Kasai, Tatsuya ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY OF HUMAN SERVICES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Current directions; Early and late I waves; First dorsal interosseous muscle; Humans; Motor imagery; Motor evoked potential; Primary motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Voluntary teeth clenching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRUXISM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX;

EID: 5644269249     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-2019-6     Document Type: Article

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