Discrete and effortful imagined movements do not specifically activate the autonomic nervous system

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Demougeot, Laurent ^a,b   Normand, Hervé ^b,c   Denise, Pierre ^b,c   Papaxanthis, Charalambos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BODY MOVEMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 69449102673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006769     Document Type: Article

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