Suppression of ipsilateral motor cortex facilitates motor skill learning

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 833-836

  Kobayashi, Masahito ^a,b   Théoret, Hugo ^a,c   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Motor practice; Paradoxical facilitation; Plasticity; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITABILITY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HAND; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INHIBITION KINETICS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CARE; SKILL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURAL INHIBITION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 60349110781     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06628.x     Document Type: Article

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