Heritability of intracortical inhibition and facilitation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 28, 2009, Pages 8897-8900

  Pellicciari, Maria Concetta ^a   Veniero, Domenica ^a,b   Marzano, Cristina ^c   Moroni, Fabio ^c   Pirulli, Cornelia ^b   Curcio, Giuseppe ^d   Ferrara, Michele ^d   Miniussi, Carlo ^a,b   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^e,f,g   De Gennaro, Luigi ^a,c  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^e IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^f Casa di Cura San Raffaele   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FACILITATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650751338     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2112-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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