Unilateral imagined movement increases interhemispheric inhibition from the contralateral to ipsilateral motor cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 232, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1823-1832

  Liang, Nan ^a   Funase, Kozo ^b   Takahashi, Makoto ^a   Matsukawa, Kanji ^a   Kasai, Tatsuya ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interhemispheric inhibition (IHI); Motor evoked potential (MEP); Motor imagery; Primary motor cortex (M1); Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); Voluntary drive

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGINATION; INNERVATION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SKELETAL MUSCLE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84902551649     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-014-3874-4     Document Type: Article

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