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SUBMITTER: Fornia L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7029688 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fornia Luca L Rossi Marco M Rabuffetti Marco M Leonetti Antonella A Puglisi Guglielmo G Viganò Luca L Simone Luciano L Howells Henrietta H Bellacicca Andrea A Bello Lorenzo L Cerri Gabriella G
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 20200101 1
Dorsal and ventral premotor (dPM and vPM) areas are crucial in control of hand muscles during object manipulation, although their respective role in humans is still debated. In patients undergoing awake surgery for brain tumors, we studied the effect of direct electrical stimulation (DES) of the premotor cortex on the execution of a hand manipulation task (HMt). A quantitative analysis of the activity of extrinsic and intrinsic hand muscles recorded during and in absence of DES was performed. Re ...[more]