Increase in corticospinal excitability of limb and trunk muscles according to maintenance of neck flexion

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 461, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 235-239

  Fujiwara, Katsuo ^a   Tomita, Hidehito ^b   Kunita, Kenji ^c  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOYOHASHI SOZO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Sapporo International University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain activation; Corticospinal excitability; Neck flexion; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; LATENT PERIOD; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NECK; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RECTUS FEMORIS MUSCLE; SITTING; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; TRUNK;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECK; NECK MUSCLES; POSTURE; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPPER EXTREMITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649958017     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.06.047     Document Type: Article

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