Inducing homeostatic-like plasticity in human motor cortex through converging corticocortical inputs

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3180-3190

  Pötter Nerger, Monika ^a   Fischer, Sarah ^a   Mastroeni, Claudia ^c   Groppa, Sergiu ^a   Deuschl, Günther ^a   Volkmann, Jens ^a   Quartarone, Angelo ^c   Münchau, Alexander ^b   Siebner, Hartwig Roman ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^d HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HAND FUNCTION; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATIVE STIMULATION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PREMOTOR REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CORTICAL SPREADING DEPRESSION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72749115942     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.91046.2008     Document Type: Article

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