Imagined actions in multiple sclerosis patients: Evidence of decline in motor cognitive prediction

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 229, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 561-570

  Tacchino, Andrea ^a   Bove, Marco ^b   Pedullà, Ludovico ^a   Battaglia, Mario Alberto ^c   Papaxanthis, Charalambos ^d   Brichetto, Giampaolo ^a  

^a Italian Foundation for Multiple Sclerosis (FISM)   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Forward internal model; Isochrony; Motor cognition; Motor imagery; Multiple sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ARM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84883464753     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3617-y     Document Type: Article

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