Getting ready to move: Transmitted information in the corticospinal pathway during preparation for movement

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 696-703

  Cohen, Oren ^a   Sherman, Efrat ^a   Zinger, Nofya ^a   Perlmutter, Steve ^b   Prut, Yifat ^a,c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTENTION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS;

EID: 78651432548     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2010.09.001     Document Type: Review

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