Frequency-dependent tuning of the human motor system induced by transcranial oscillatory potentials

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 34, 2011, Pages 12165-12170

  Feurra, Matteo ^a   Bianco, Giovanni ^a   Santarnecchi, Emiliano ^a   del Testa, Massimiliano ^a   Rossi, Alessandro ^a   Rossi, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATING CURRENT; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATORY POTENTIAL; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ULNAR NERVE;

ADULT; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ULNAR NERVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052181843     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0978-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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