Corticospinal output and cortical excitation-inhibition balance in distal hand muscle representations in nonprimary motor area

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1692-1703

  Vaalto, Selja ^a,b,c   Säisänen, Laura ^a,b   Könönen, Mervi ^b   Julkunen, Petro ^b   Hukkanen, Taina ^b   Määttä, Sara ^b   Karhu, Jari ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d Nexstim Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

Corticospinal output; Intracortical facilitation; Nonprimary motor areas; Short interval intracortical inhibition; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL POPULATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NON PRIMARY MOTOR AREA; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052668757     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21137     Document Type: Article

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