In the last decade, many studies confirmed the benefits of mental practice with motor
imagery. In this review we first aimed to compile data issued from fundamental and clinical …

In the last decade, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has been used increasingly as a
tool to explore the mechanisms and consequences of cortical plasticity in the intact human …

Stroke patients in the chronic phase received constraint-induced (CI) movement therapy.
The motor cortex was spatially mapped using focal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) …

Following a hemispheric stroke, various degrees of neuronal reorganization around the
lesion occur immediately after disease onset and thereafter up to several months. These …

The mainstays of brain imaging techniques have been positron emission tomography (PET),
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), magnetoencephalography (MEG), and event …

Background The mechanoreceptors located in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) constitute an
afferent source of information toward the central nervous system. It has been proposed that …

We tested the hypothesis that the nervous system, and the cortex in particular, is a critical
determinant of muscle strength/weakness and that a high level of corticospinal inhibition is …

Magnetic stimulation of brain and spinal roots provides a non-invasive evaluation of nervous
propagation as well as of motor cortex excitability in healthy subjects and in patients affected …

Studies of unilateral finger movement in right-handed subjects have shown asymmetrical
patterns of activation in primary motor cortex and subcortical regions. In order to investigate …

Motor system excitability was tested by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and F-wave
and H-reflex evaluation in different action observation tasks. Our aim was to investigate the …