Primary motor cortex excitability is modulated with bimanual training

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 514, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 147-151

  Neva, Jason L ^a   Legon, Wynn ^a,b   Staines, W Richard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bimanual training; Cortical excitability; In phase movements; Spatial map; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; PLASTICITY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WRIST;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRIST;

EID: 84861874659     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.02.075     Document Type: Article

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