TMS stimulus-response asymmetry in left- and right-handed individuals

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 224, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 411-416

  Daligadu, Julian ^a   Murphy, Bernadette ^a   Brown, Jeff ^a   Rae, Brendan ^a   Yielder, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Handedness; Motor cortex; Plasticity; Stimulus response; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; HAND MUSCLE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84873712716     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3320-4     Document Type: Article

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