Corticospinal excitability during observation and imagery of simple and complex hand tasks: Implications for motor rehabilitation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-41

  Roosink, Meyke ^a   Zijdewind, Inge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Motor imagery; Motor rehabilitation; Movement observation; Task instructions; Task complexity; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REHABILITATION; REST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77953363679     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.04.027     Document Type: Article

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