Reduced cortico-motor facilitation in a normal sample with high traits of autism

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 467, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-177

  Puzzo, Ignazio ^a   Cooper, Nicholas R ^a   Vetter, Petra ^b   Russo, Riccardo ^a   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c Alfred Heart Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mirror neurons; Social cognition; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HAND; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUTH; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 70350574611     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.10.033     Document Type: Article

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