Motor-evoked potentials: Unusual findings

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1641-1645

  Ugawa, Yoshikazu ^a   Kanazawa, Ichiro ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Electrical stimulation; Magnetic stimulation; Motor cortex; Spastic paraparesis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPASTIC PARAPLEGIA; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PARAPARESIS, TROPICAL SPASTIC; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0032820147     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(99)00103-0     Document Type: Article

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