Muscle Activation During Grasping With and Without Motor Imagery in Healthy Volunteers and Patients After Stroke or With Parkinson's Disease

Muscle Activation During Grasping With and Without Motor Imagery in Healthy Volunteers and Patients After Stroke or With Parkinson's Disease

Introduction: The present study assessed whether motor imagery (MI) produces electromyographic activation in specific muscles of the upper limb during a hand grasping and arm-lifting task in healthy volunteers, patients after stroke, or with Parkinson's disease. Electromyographic (EMG) activati...

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Main Authors: Manuela Kobelt, Brigitte Wirth, Corina Schuster-Amft
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
stroke
Parkinson's disease
healthy volunteers
motor imagery
muscle activation
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00597/full

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