Voluntary activation and cortical activity during a sustained maximal contraction: An fMRI study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1014-1027

  Post, Marijn ^a,b   Steens, Anneke ^a   Renken, Remco ^a   Maurits, Natasha M ^a   Zijdewind, Inge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b University of Groningen E ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fatigue; FMRI; Twitch interpolation

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 61449107631     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20562     Document Type: Article

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