Effect of stimulation of an upper limb on motor evoked potentials in lower limb muscles to transcranial magnetic stimulation in normal subjects and patients with thalamic infarction

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 499-507

  Chen, Jen Tse ^a,b   Chen, Chao Ching ^a,b   Kao, Ko Pei ^a,b   Wu, Zin An ^a,b   Liao, Kwong Kum ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Facilitation; Jendrassik maneuver; Motor evoked potentials; Thalamic infarction; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARM; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MUSCLES; REACTION TIME; THALAMIC DISEASES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0032892092     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(98)00032-7     Document Type: Article

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