Facilitation of corticospinal excitability in the tibialis anterior muscle during robot-assisted passive stepping in humans

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 100-109

  Kamibayashi, Kiyotaka ^a,b   Nakajima, Tsuyoshi ^a   Takahashi, Makoto ^a,c   Akai, Masami ^a   Nakazawa, Kimitaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL REHABILITATION CENTER FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Load related afferent input; Locomotion; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; GAIT DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; ROBOTICS; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREADMILL; WALKING;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; LEG; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649856510     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06795.x     Document Type: Article

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