Transient inhibition of primary motor cortex suppresses hand muscle responses during a reactive reach to grasp

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 504, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 83-87

  Bolton, David A E ^a,b   Patel, Rupesh ^a   Staines, W Richard ^a,b   McIlroy, William E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balance; Compensatory reaction; Postural perturbation; Reach to grasp; Reaching

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTIVE REACH TO GRASP; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SHOULDER; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THETA RHYTHM; TILTING; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CUES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053976941     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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