Neural mechanisms underlying the changes in ipsilateral primary motor cortex excitability during unilateral rhythmic muscle contraction

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 240, Issue , 2013, Pages 33-45

  Uehara, Kazumasa ^a   Morishita, Takuya ^a   Kubota, Shinji ^a   Funase, Kozo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory cue; Ipsilateral primary motor cortex; Premotor cortex; Rhythmic muscle contraction; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CUES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875060645     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.10.053     Document Type: Article

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