Effect of volitional relaxation and motor imagery on F wave and MEP: Do these tasks affect excitability of the spinal or cortical motor neurons?

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1405-1410

  Fujisawa, R ^a,f   Kimura, J ^b   Taniguchi, S ^a   Ichikawa, H ^c   Hara, M ^d   Shimizu, H ^e   Iida, H ^f   Yamada, T ^b   Tani, T ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^f KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anterior horn cell; F wave; MEP; Motor imagery; Motor neuron excitability; Volitional relaxation

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; F WAVE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; TASK PERFORMANCE; THUMB;

ADULT; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE RELAXATION; SPINAL CORD; THUMB; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 79957587803     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.12.041     Document Type: Article

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