An fMRI study of the differences in brain activity during active ankle dorsiflexion and plantarflexion

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 121-131

  Trinastic, Jonathan P ^a   Kautz, Steven A ^a   McGregor, Keith ^a,b   Gregory, Chris ^a   Bowden, Mark ^a   Benjamin, Michelle B ^a,b   Kurtzman, Marc ^c   Chang, Yu Ling ^d   Conway, Tim ^a,b   Crosson, Bruce ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ankle; Dorsiflexion; fMRI; Locomotor; Motor; Plantarflexion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE DORSIFLEXION; ANKLE PLANTARFLEXION; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANKLE; AREA UNDER CURVE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REST; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77953541204     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-010-9091-2     Document Type: Article

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