Interictal inhibitory mechanisms in patients with cryptogenic motor cortex epilepsy: A study of the silent period following transcranial magnetic stimulation

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-7

  Cincotta, M ^a   Borgheresi, A ^a   Lori, S ^a   Fabbri, M ^a   Zaccara, G ^a  

^a Azienda Sanit N10 Firenze Osp S   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epilepsy; Epileptogenesis; Inhibition; Motor cortex; Silent period; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CARBAMAZEPINE; CLONAZEPAM; LAMOTRIGINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PRIMIDONE; VALPROIC ACID; VIGABATRIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0031859246     PISSN: 00134694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-4694(98)00035-2     Document Type: Article

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