Influence of motor imagination on cortical activation during functional electrical stimulation

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 126, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1360-1369

  Reynolds, Clare ^a   Osuagwu, Bethel A ^a   Vuckovic, Aleksandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface; Event related synchronisation desynchronisation; Functional electrical stimulation; Motor imagination; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROL STRATEGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL ACTIVATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVENT RELATED SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR IMAGINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY NERVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EFFERENT NERVE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACES; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT;

EID: 84930541811     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.10.007     Document Type: Article

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