Individual fascicles of the paraspinal muscles are activated by discrete cortical networks in humans

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1580-1587

  Tsao, Henry ^a   Danneels, Lieven ^b   Hodges, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Discrete organisation; Motor control; Motor cortex; Paraspinal muscles; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASPINAL MUSCLE FASCICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960202839     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.01.048     Document Type: Article

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