Open AccessInterhemispheric Plasticity in Humans
Author(s) -
Tibor Hortobágyi,
Sarah Pirio Richardson,
Mikhail Lomarev,
Ejaz A. Shamim,
Sabine Meunier,
Heike Russman,
Nguyet Dang,
Mark Hallett
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
medicine and science in sports and exercise
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.703
H-Index - 224
eISSN - 1530-0315
pISSN - 0195-9131
DOI - 10.1249/mss.0b013e31820a94b8
Subject(s) - transcranial magnetic stimulation , primary motor cortex , neuroplasticity , facilitation , medicine , motor cortex , physical medicine and rehabilitation , motor learning , dorsum , psychology , stimulation , anatomy , neuroscience
Chronic unimanual motor practice increases the motor output not only in the trained but also in the nonexercised homologous muscle in the opposite limb. We examined the hypothesis that adaptations in motor cortical excitability of the nontrained primary motor cortex (iM1) and in interhemispheric inhibition from the trained to the nontrained M1 mediate this interlimb cross education.