Developmental tuning and decay in senescence of oscillations linking the corticospinal system

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3663-3674

  Graziadio, Sara ^a   Basu, Anna ^a   Tomasevic, Leo ^c   Zappasodi, Filippo ^b,c,d   Tecchio, Franca ^c,d,e   Eyre, Janet A ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^d FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OSCILLATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENESCENCE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPINAL CORD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949393846     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5621-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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