Increased corticospinal excitability induced by unpleasant visual stimuli

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 481, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 135-138

  Coelho, Carlos M ^a   Lipp, Ottmar V ^a   Marinovic, Welber ^a   Wallis, Guy ^a   Riek, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action preparation; Corticospinal excitability; Emotion; Fear; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNPLEASANT SENSATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77955331015     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.03.027     Document Type: Article

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