Corticospinal output and loss of force during motor fatigue

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 111-123

  Rösler, Kai M ^a   Scheidegger, O ^a   Magistris, M R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central motor conduction; Fatigue; Maximal voluntary force; Motor evoked potential; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Triple stimulation technique

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68349146512     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-1897-z     Document Type: Article

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