Somatosensory evoked magnetic fields to median nerve stimulation: Interhemispheric differences in a normal population

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Evoked Potentials

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 480-487

  Wikström, Heidi ^a   Roine, Risto O ^a   Salonen, Oili ^a   Aronen, Hannu J ^a   Virtanen, Juha ^b   Ilmoniemi, Risto J ^a   Huttunen, Juha ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Hemispheric asymmetry; Magnetoencephalography; Somatosensory evoked magnetic fields

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0012815655     PISSN: 01685597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-5597(97)00055-5     Document Type: Article

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