Pathway-specific plasticity in the human spinal cord

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1622-1629

  Leukel, Christian ^a,c   Taube, Wolfgang ^c   Beck, Sandra ^a   Schubert, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cervicomedullary evoked potential; H reflex conditioning; Motor evoked potential; Paired associative stimulation; Spinal cord; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CERVICOMEDULLARY JUNCTION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CORTICOSPINAL TRANSMISSION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL PAIRED ASSOCIATIVE STIMULATION; TIBIAL NERVE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861235455     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08067.x     Document Type: Article

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