Hemispheric Differences in Corticospinal Excitability and in Transcallosal Inhibition in Relation to Degree of Handedness

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 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; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EDINBURGH HANDEDNESS INVENTORY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FINGER; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REST; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84880793681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070286     Document Type: Article

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