Associative cortico-cortical plasticity may affect ipsilateral finger opposition movements

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 433-439

  Rizzo, V ^a   Bove, M ^b   Naro, A ^a   Tacchino, A ^b   Mastroeni, C ^a   Avanzino, L ^b   Crupi, D ^a   Morgante, F ^a   Siebner, H R ^c   Quartarone, A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative plasticity; Cortico cortical connectivity; Finger opposition movements; Interhemispheric inhibition; Motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOENGINEERING; BRAIN CORTEX; FEMALE; FINGER; GLOVE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATIVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REHABILITATION CARE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 78149412304     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.08.037     Document Type: Article

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