Muscle relaxation of the foot reduces corticospinal excitability of hand muscles and enhances intracortical inhibition

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue MAY2016, 2016, Pages

  Kato, Kouki ^a,b   Muraoka, Tetsuro ^c   Mizuguchi, Nobuaki ^a   Nakagawa, Kento ^a,b   Nakata, Hiroki ^d   Kanosue, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coordination; Ipsilateral; MEP; SICI; TMS

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; EXCITABILITY; FOOT; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE RELAXATION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SOLEUS MUSCLE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84977544826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00218     Document Type: Article

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