Voluntary activation is reduced in both the more-and less-affected upper limbs after unilateral stroke

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 5, Issue NOV, 2014, Pages

  Bowden, Jocelyn L ^a,b   Taylor, Janet L ^a,b   McNulty, Penelope A ^a,b  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biceps brachii; Maximal voluntary contraction; Motor cortex; Motor evoked potential; Neural drive

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW FLEXION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PERIPHERAL NERVE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

EID: 84926624835     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2014.00239     Document Type: Article

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