Intracortical inhibition and facilitation in human facial motor area: Difference between upper and lower facial area

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 112, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1604-1611

  Kobayashi, Masahito ^a   Théoret, Hugo ^a   Mottaghy, Felix Manuel ^a   Gangitano, Massimo ^a   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial muscle; Facilitation; Inhibition; Intracortical circuit; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACE MUSCLE; FACILITATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FACIAL MUSCLES; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0034893476     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(01)00632-0     Document Type: Article

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