Bimanual Motor Coordination in Older Adults Is Associated with Increased Functional Brain Connectivity - A Graph-Theoretical Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Heitger, Marcus H ^a   Goble, Daniel J ^a   Dhollander, Thijs ^b   Dupont, Patrick ^a   Caeyenberghs, Karen ^a   Leemans, Alexander ^c   Sunaert, Stefan ^b   Swinnen, Stephan P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PARIETAL OPERCULUM; PARS OPERCULARIS; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; WRIST; AGING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AGING; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BRAIN; CEREBRUM; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE NET;

EID: 84876936890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062133     Document Type: Article

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