Acute exercise enhances the response to paired associative stimulation-induced plasticity in the primary motor cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 232, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3675-3685

  Singh, Amaya M ^a   Neva, Jason L ^a   Staines, W Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exercise; Intracortical inhibition; Motor cortex; Paired associative stimulation; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ARM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATIVE STIMULATION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXERCISE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AREA UNDER CURVE; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84919838559     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-014-4049-z     Document Type: Article

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