Charting the excitability of premotor to motor connections while withholding or initiating a selected movement

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1771-1779

  Kroeger, Johan ^a   Bäumer, Tobias ^a   Jonas, Melanie ^b   Rothwell, John C ^c   Siebner, Hartwig R ^d   Münchau, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Dorsal premotor cortex; Motor cortex; Reaction time; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 78349288418     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07442.x     Document Type: Article

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