Demonstration of facilitatory I wave interaction in the human motor cortex by paired transcranial magnetic stimulation

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 511, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 181-190

  Ziemann, Ulf ^a,b   Tergau, Frithjof ^a   Wassermann, Eric M ^b   Wischer, Stephan ^a   Hildebrandt, Jörg ^a   Paulus, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ABDUCTOR DIGITI MUSCLE; ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; I WAVE; MALE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0032528962     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.181bi.x     Document Type: Article

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