Transcranial magnetic stimulation: Studying the brain-behaviour relationship by induction of 'virtual lesions'

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1387, 1999, Pages 1229-1238

  Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a   Bartres Faz, David ^a   Keenan, Julian P ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain behaviour relation; Non invasive; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033614991     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0476     Document Type: Article

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