Sensory afferent inhibition within and between limbs in humans

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 610-618

  Bikmullina, R ^a,b   Baumer T ^a   Zittel, S ^a   Munchau A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Sensorimotor integration; Short afferent inhibition; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ARM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS; TOES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 62949154735     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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