Direct demonstration of interhemispheric inhibition of the human motor cortex produced by transcranial magnetic stimulation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 520-524

  Di Lazzaro, V ^a   Oliviero, A ^a   Profice, P ^a   Insola, A ^b   Mazzone, P ^c   Tonali, P ^a,d   Rothwell, J C ^e  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b Neurofisiologia CTO   (Italy)

^c Neurochirurgia CTO   (Italy)

^d CASA SOLLIEVO DELLA SOFFERENZA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Descending volleys; Interhemispheric inhibition; Magnetic stimulation; Motor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CONDITIONING; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPIDURAL SPACE; HAND MUSCLE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0033059752     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050648     Document Type: Article

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