Modulation of interhemispheric inhibition by volitional motor activity: An ipsilateral silent period study

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 587, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 5393-5410

  Giovannelli, Fabio ^a,b   Borgheresi, Alessandra ^a   Balestrieri, Fabrizio ^a   Zaccara, Gaetano ^a   Viggiano, Maria Pia ^b   Cincotta, Massimo ^a   Ziemann, Ulf ^c  

^a Florence Health Agency   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ABDUCTION; ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR INDICIS MUSCLE; FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEOUS MUSCLE; HAND MUSCLE; INDEX FINGER; INTERHEMISPHERIC INHIBITION; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VOLITION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70649100192     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2009.175885     Document Type: Article

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