Cortical motor neuron excitability during cutaneous silent period

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Electromyography and Motor Control

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 364-368

  Kaneko, Kazuo ^a   Kawai, Shinya ^a   Taguchi, Toshihiko ^a   Fuchigami, Yasunori ^a   Yonemura, Hiroshi ^a   Fujimoto, Hideaki ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Motor neuron; Pain; Silent period; Syringomyelia; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYRINGOMYELIA; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SKIN; SYRINGOMYELIA;

EID: 0032147047     PISSN: 0924980X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-980X(98)00031-9     Document Type: Article

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