Cortical excitability differences in hand muscles follow a split-hand pattern in healthy controls

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 836-844

  Menon, Parvathi ^a   Kiernan, Matthew C ^b,c   Vucic, Steve ^a,b  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Axonal excitability; Cortical excitability; Hypothenar muscles; Thenar muscles; TMS

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS; ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AXONAL EXCITABILITY; CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEOUS; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR FACILITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLIT HAND PATTERN; ULNAR NERVE;

AXONAL EXCITABILITY; CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; HYPOTHENAR MUSCLES; THENAR MUSCLES; TMS;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AXONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; THRESHOLD LIMIT VALUES;

EID: 84899837852     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.24072     Document Type: Article

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