Central fatigue assessed by transcranial magnetic stimulation

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1429-1434

  Liepert, Joachim ^a   Kotterba, Sylvia ^a   Tegenthoff, Martin ^a   Malin, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

central fatigue; cortical excitability; multiple sclerosis; spinal excitability; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN VASCULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0029800923     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199611)19:11<1429::AID-MUS7>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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