Brain motor excitability and visuomotor coordination in 8-year-old children born very preterm

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1191-1199

  Flamand, Véronique H ^a,b,c   Nadeau, Line ^b,c   Schneider, Cyril ^a,c  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN REHABILITATION AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical assessments; Corticomotor excitability; Motor control; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Very preterm children; Visuomotor coordination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL INTEROSSEOUS MUSCLE; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PREMATURITY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

CHILD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84861460448     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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