Transcranial magnetic stimulation of motor pathways directed to muscles supplied by cranial nerves in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 132-140

  Desiato, Maria Teresa ^a   Bernardi, Giorgio ^a   Hagi H, Abdikarim ^a   Boffa, Laura ^a   Caramia, Maria D ^a,b  

^a S EUGENIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active threshold; Cranial; Inhibition; Masseter; Silent period

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; ORBICULARIS ORIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CRANIAL NERVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0036151017     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(01)00724-6     Document Type: Article

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