Fast increase of motor cortical inhibition following postural changes in healthy subjects

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 530, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-11

  Oliveri, Massimiliano ^a,d   Caltagirone, Carlo ^a   Loriga, Rita ^b   Pompa, Maria Novella ^b   Versace, Viviana ^a   Souchard, Philippe ^c  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b AIRAR   (Italy)

^c Centre de thérapie manuelle   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Global postural reeducation; Inhibition; Motor cortex; Physiotherapy; Posture; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; GAIT; GLOBAL POSTURAL REEDUCATION; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE STRETCHING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE STRETCHING EXERCISES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; POSTURE; REFERENCE VALUES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868300317     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.09.031     Document Type: Article

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