The influence of current direction on phosphene thresholds evoked by transcranial magnetic stimulation

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2015-2021

  Kammer, Thomas ^a   Beck, Sandra ^a   Erb, Michael ^b   Grodd, Wolfgang ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Human visual cortex; Phosphenes; Retinotopic map; Threshold; TMS

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEVICE; DIRECT CURRENT; ENERGY; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OCCIPITAL BONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOSPHENES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0034782904     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(01)00673-3     Document Type: Article

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