Practice-related reduction of electromyographic mirroring activity depends on basal levels of interhemispheric inhibition

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3749-3757

  Bologna, Matteo ^a,d   Caronni, Antonio ^a,d   Berardelli, Alfredo ^b,c   Rothwell, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Interhemispheric inhibition; Motor control; Neurophysiology; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIRROR NEURON; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURAL INHIBITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84871340251     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12009     Document Type: Article

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