Responses of masseter muscles to transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 309-314

  Trompetto, C ^a   Caponnetto, C ^a   Buccolieri, A ^a   Marchese, R ^a   Abbruzzese, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Cervical spondylothic myelopathy; Magnetic stimulation; Masseter muscles; Motor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; REACTION TIME; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 0032146995     PISSN: 0924980X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-980X(98)00025-3     Document Type: Article

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