Short time sports exercise boosts motor imagery patterns: Implications of mental practice in rehabilitation programs

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JUNE, 2014, Pages

  Wriessnegger, Selina C ^a,b   Steyrl, David ^a,b   Koschutnig, Karl ^b,c   Müller Putz, Gernot R ^a,b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b BIOTECHMED GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Motor imagery; Motor recovery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR IMAGERY; MUSCLE EXERCISE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; REHABILITATION CARE; SOCCER; SPORT; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TENNIS; TREATMENT DURATION; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 84903717998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00469     Document Type: Article

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