Subthreshold prefrontal repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces motor cortex excitability

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 112-114

  Rollnik, Jens D ^a   Schubert, Margot ^a   Dengler, Reinhard ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Motor evoked potential, (MEP); Prefrontal cortex; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AKINESIA; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033970669     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(200001)23:1<112::AID-MUS15>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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