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

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

The object of this study was to clarify the effects of foot muscle relaxation on activity in the primary motor cortex of the hand area. Subjects were asked to volitionally relax the right foot from sustained contraction of either the dorsiflexor (tibialis anterior; TA relaxation) or plantarflexor (...

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Main Authors: Kouki eKato, Tetsuro eMuraoka, Nobuaki eMizuguchi, Kento eNakagawa, Hiroki eNakata, Kazuyuki eKanosue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
coordination
TMS
MEP
go-nogo
SICI
ipsilateral
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00218/full

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