Ipsilateral motor cortical responses to TMS during lengthening and shortening of the contralateral wrist flexors

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 978-990

  Howatson, Glyn ^a   Taylor, Mathew B ^b   Rider, Patrick ^b   Motawar, Binal R ^b   Mcnally, Michael P ^b   Solnik, Stanislaw ^c   Devita, Paul ^b   Hortobágyi, Tibor ^b  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cross education; Motor cortex; Spinal excitability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FLEXOR CARPI RADIALIS; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HEMISPHERE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRIST;

EID: 79952417634     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07567.x     Document Type: Article

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