Plasticity in human motor cortex is in part genetically determined

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 589, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 297-306

  Missitzi, Julia ^a,b   Gentner, Reinhard ^b   Geladas, Nickos ^a   Politis, Panagiotis ^c   Karandreas, Nikos ^a   Classen, Joseph ^b,d   Klissouras, Vassilis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 78651459970     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2010.200600     Document Type: Article

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