Intracortical excitatory and inhibitory phenomena to paired transcranial magnetic stimulation in healthy human subjects: Differences between the right and left hemisphere

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 171-174

  Cicinelli, Paola ^a   Traversa, Raimondo ^a   Oliveri, Massimiliano ^a   Palmieri, Maria Giuseppina ^a   Filippi, Maria Maddalena ^b   Pasqualetti, Patrizio ^b   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Interhemispheric asymmetries; Intracortical excitability; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTROMAGNETICS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HUMANS; NEURAL INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0034698485     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01216-7     Document Type: Article

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