Cortical excitability differences between flexor pollicis longus and APB

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 541, Issue , 2013, Pages 150-154

  Bae, Jong Seok ^a,b   Menon, Parvathi ^c   Mioshi, Eneida ^a   Kiernan, Matthew C ^a,d   Vucic, Steve ^a,c  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abductor pollicis brevis; Cortical excitability; Cortical function; Flexor pollicis longus; TMS

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FLEXOR POLLICIS LONGUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THENAR; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84876408209     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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