The aging motor system as a model for plastic changes of GABA-mediated intracortical inhibition and their behavioral relevance

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 9039-9049

  Heise, Kirstin F ^a   Zimerman, Maximo ^a   Hoppe, Julia ^a   Gerloff, Christian ^a   Wegscheider, Karl ^b   Hummel, Friedhelm C ^a  

^a Department of Neurology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; REACTION TIME; REST; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877942469     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4094-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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