Corticomotor representation to a human forearm muscle changes following cervical spinal cord injury

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1839-1846

  Freund, Patrick ^a,b,c   Rothwell, John ^a   Craggs, Michael ^c   Thompson, Alan J ^a   Bestmann, Sven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SWISS PARAPLEGIC RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortical reorganization; Motor cortex; Navigated TMS; Plasticity; Spinal atrophy; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; FOREARM; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GRAVITY; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATROPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FOREARM; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERCEPTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 82455212838     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07895.x     Document Type: Article

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