The modulation of corticospinal excitability during motor imagery of actions with objects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Mizuguchi, Nobuaki ^a,b   Sakamoto, Masanori ^c   Muraoka, Tetsuro ^d   Nakagawa, Kento ^a   Kanazawa, Shoichi ^a   Nakata, Hiroki ^a   Moriyama, Noriyoshi ^a   Kanosue, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PINCH STRENGTH; POWER GRIP; PROPRIOCEPTION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; HAND STRENGTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054067078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026006     Document Type: Article

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