Responses of finger flexor and extensor muscles to transcranial magnetic stimulation during isometric force production tasks

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 739-744

  Park, Woo Hyung ^a   Li, Sheng ^b,c  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c TIRR MEMORIAL HERMANN   (United States)

Author keywords

Extensor digitorum communis; Flexor digitorum superfialis; Motor evoked potential; TMS induced force; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXTENSOR DIGITORUM LONGUS MUSCLE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FINGER; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TWITCH; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POWER GRIP; PRECISION GRIP; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESISTANCE TRAINING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EXTENSOR DIGITORUM COMMUNIS; FLEXOR DIGITORUM SUPERFIALIS; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; TMS-INDUCED FORCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886747318     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.23804     Document Type: Article

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