Age-related changes in short-interval intracortical facilitation and dexterity

NeuroReport

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 499-503

  Clark, Jordana ^a   Loftus, Andrea ^a   Hammond, Geoff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; manual dexterity; motor control; motor cortex; short interval intracortical facilitation; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERSTIMULUS INTERVAL; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT INTERVAL INTRACORTICAL FACILITATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959852623     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283487480     Document Type: Article

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