Timing of cortical excitability changes during the reaction time of movements superimposed on tonic motor activity

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2220-2227

  Schneider, Cyril ^a   Lavoie, Brigitte A ^a   Barbeau, Hugues ^a,c   Capaday, Charles ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE DE L INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE EN SANTÉ MENTALE DE QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Magnetic stimulation; Motor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; REST; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; REACTION TIME;

EID: 9244237057     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00542.2004     Document Type: Article

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