Rapid rate transcranial magnetic stimulation - A safety study

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 422-429

  Jahanshahi, Marjan ^a,b   Ridding, Michael C ^b   Limousin, Patricia ^b   Profice, Paolo ^c   Fogel, Wolfgang ^d   Dressler, Dirk ^b   Fuller, Rebecca ^a,b   Brown, Richard G ^b   Brown, Peter ^b   Rothwell, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Rapid rate magnetic stimulation; Safety study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0031461742     PISSN: 0924980X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-980X(97)00057-X     Document Type: Article

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