Cortical excitability threshold for distal limb muscles in transcranial magnetic stimulation. Method - Normative values

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 69-77

  Niewiadomska, Maria ^a   Wochnik Dyjas, Danuta ^a   Głazowski, Czesław ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cortical threshold; Distal muscles; Normative values; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ARM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0031932994     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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