Motor excitability during imagination and observation of foot dorsiflexions

Journal of Neural Transmission

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1613-1619

  Liepert, Joachim ^a   Neveling, Nina ^a  

^a Kliniken Schmieder Allensbach   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action observation; Foot dorsiflexion; Intracortical inhibition; Motor imagery; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR IMAGERY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; WALKING;

ADULT; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FOOT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70949102017     PISSN: 03009564     EISSN: 14351463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-009-0287-9     Document Type: Article

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