The Supplementary Motor Area Exerts a Tonic Excitatory Influence on Corticospinal Projections to Phrenic Motoneurons in Awake Humans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Laviolette, Louis ^a   Niérat, Marie Cécile ^a   Hudson, Anna L ^a,b   Raux, Mathieu ^a   Allard, Étienne ^a   Similowski, Thomas ^a,c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BREATHING MECHANICS; CONDITIONING; CONTINUOUS THETA BURST MAGNETIC STIMULATION; DIAPHRAGM MOTOR EVOKED RESPONSE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PHRENIC NERVE; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; RESPIRATORY NERVE CELL; SINGLE PULSE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TONIC EXCITATORY STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84876197988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062258     Document Type: Article

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