Excitability changes in the ipsilateral primary motor cortex during rhythmic contraction of finger muscles

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 488, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-25

  Uehara, Kazumasa ^a   Morishita, Takuya ^a   Funase, Kozo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ipsilateral primary motor cortex; Rhythmic movement; TMS; Transcallosal pathway

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ABDUCTOR DIGITI MINIMI; ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERIODICITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650515273     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.10.073     Document Type: Article

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