The long-term effects of sports concussion on retired Australian football players: A study using transcranial magnetic stimulation

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 1139-1145

  Pearce, Alan J ^a   Hoy, Kate ^b   Rogers, Mark A ^a   Corp, Daniel T ^a   Maller, Jerome J ^b   Drury, Hannah G K ^a   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

mild traumatic brain injury; motor cortex inhibition; motor execution slowness; sports concussion; TMS

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MOTOR THRESHOLD; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BRAIN CONCUSSION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SILENT PERIOD; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FINE MOTOR DEXTERITY; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; LONG INTERVAL INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SHORT INTERVAL INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; SPATIAL WORKING MEMORY; SPORT INJURY; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; VISUOMOTOR REACTION TIME; WORKING MEMORY; ATHLETIC INJURIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SOCCER; TRENDS;

ADULT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; AUSTRALIA; BRAIN CONCUSSION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCCER; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84903846151     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2013.3219     Document Type: Article

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