Cortical muscle control of spontaneous movements in human neonates

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2548-2553

  Kanazawa, Hoshinori ^a,b   Kawai, Masahiko ^a   Kinai, Takahiro ^c   Iwanaga, Kougorou ^a   Mima, Tatsuya ^a   Heike, Toshio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c MORINOMIYA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coherence; Electroencephalography; Electromyography; Granger causality; Neonate

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOMUSCULAR COHERENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRANGER CAUSALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; INNERVATION; LEG; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEG; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 84905392233     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12612     Document Type: Article

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