Long-lasting contralateral motor cortex excitability is increased by unilateral hand movement that triggers electrical stimulation of opposite homologous muscles

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 521-530

  Schmidt, Matthew W ^a   Hinder, Mark R ^a   Summers, Jeffery J ^a   Garry, Michael I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

attention; motor cortex; plasticity; transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; CONTRALATERAL MOTOR CORTEX EXCITABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEUS; HAND FUNCTION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THUMB; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNILATERAL HAND MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959291057     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968310397202     Document Type: Article

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