Relationship between excitability, plasticity and thickness of the motor cortex in older adults

NeuroImage

Volumn 83, Issue , 2013, Pages 809-816

  List, Jonathan ^a   Kübke, Jan C ^a   Lindenberg, Robert ^a   Külzow, Nadine ^a   Kerti, Lucia ^a   Witte, Veronica ^a   Flöel, Agnes ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical thickness; Diffusion tensor imaging; Paired associative stimulation; Resting motor threshold; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT;

ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS MUSCLE; AD; ALZHEIMER'S DEMENTIA; APB; AUDITORY VERBAL LEARNING TEST; AVLT; CCD; COIL-TO-CORTEX DISTANCE; CORTICAL THICKNESS; CT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DTI; ECHO TIME; FA; FLAIR; FLUID ATTENUATION INVERSION RECOVERY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GABA; GAMMA AMINO BUTYRIC ACID; GENERAL LINEAR MODEL; GLM; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; LTP; M1; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEP; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; MRI; N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; NMDA; PAIRED ASSOCIATIVE STIMULATION; PAS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PT; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REGION OF INTEREST; REPETITION TIME; RESTING MOTOR THRESHOLD; RMT; ROI; TE; TMS; TMT; TR; TRAIL MAKING TEST; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VASCULAR DEMENTIA; VD; WHITE MATTER HYPERINTENSITIES; WMH;

AGED; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84882602785     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.07.033     Document Type: Article

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