Effect of motor imagery and voluntary muscle contraction on the F wave

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 208-212

  Hara, Motohiko ^a   Kimura, Jun ^b   Walker, D David ^b   Taniguchi, Shinichirou ^c   Ichikawa, Hiroo ^d   Fujisawa, Reiko ^e   Shimizu, Hiroshi ^f   Abe, Tatsuya ^g   Yamada, Thoru ^b   Kayamori, Ryoji ^a   Mizutani, Tomohiko ^h  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^g SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior horn cells; F wave; Motor imagery; Spinal excitability; Voluntary contraction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTERIOR HORN CELL; ARTICLE; F WAVE; FEMALE; FORCE TRANSDUCER; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL NERVE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 77955139481     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.21667     Document Type: Article

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