Dissecting the mechanisms underlying short-interval intracortical inhibition using exercise

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1639-1644

  Vucic, Steve ^a,b   Cheah, Benjamin C ^b,c   Kiernan, Matthew C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

motor evoked potential; short interval intracortical inhibition; voluntary contraction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL AND SENSORIAL PROCEDURES; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT INTERVAL INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959412081     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq235     Document Type: Article

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