Effects of low-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation on motor excitability and basic motor behavior

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1002-1007

  Muellbacher, Wolf ^a,b   Ziemann, Ulf ^a,c   Boroojerdi, Babak ^a   Hallett, Mark ^a  

^a National Institute of Neurological Disorders   (United States)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Force; Humans; Motor excitability; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0034213271     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(00)00284-4     Document Type: Article

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