Age and hemispheric differences in transcallosal inhibition between motor cortices: An ispsilateral silent period study

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Davidson, Travis ^a,b   Tremblay, François ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b BRUYÈRE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879210286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-14-62     Document Type: Article

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