Preferential activation of different I waves by transcranial magnetic stimulation with a figure-of-eight-shaped coil

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 24-32

  Sakai, Katsuyuki ^a   Ugawa, Yoshikazu ^a   Terao, Yasuo ^a   Hanajima, Ritsuko ^a   Furubayashi, Toshiaki ^a   Kanazawa, Ichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

D wave; Human; I wave; Motor cortex; Pyramidal tract neurons; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MYOTONIA; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WAVEFORM;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0031036058     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02454139     Document Type: Article

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