Does conscious intention to perform a motor act depend on slow cardiovascular rhythms?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 468, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 46-50

  Pfurtscheller, Gert ^a   Ortner, Rupert ^a   Bauernfeind, Günther ^a   Linortner, Patricia ^a   Neuper, Christa ^a,b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Baroreflex loop; Heart rate; Self paced movements; Slow blood pressure oscillations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN REGION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FINGER; FRONTAL CORTEX; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONSCIOUSNESS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; PERIODICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPIRATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449529872     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.10.060     Document Type: Article

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