Heritability of motor control and motor learning

Physiological Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Missitzi, Julia ^a,b   Gentner, Reinhard ^b   Misitzi, Angelica ^c   Geladas, Nickos ^a   Politis, Panagiotis ^d   Klissouras, Vassilis ^a   Classen, Joseph ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

BDNF; Dynamic motor training; Force control; Genetic variation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ABDUCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL STATUS; TRAINING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85008873190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2051817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/phy2.188     Document Type: Article

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