Dissociation of cortical areas responsible for evoking excitatory and inhibitory responses in the small hand muscles

Brain Topography

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 397-405

  Lewko, Jerzy P ^a   Stokić, Dobrivoje S ^a   Tarkka, Ina M ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical representation area; Motor cortex mapping; Motor evoked potential; Silent period; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SCALP;

EID: 0029899481     PISSN: 08960267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01186915     Document Type: Article

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