Reduced inhibition within primary motor cortex in patients with poststroke focal motor seizures

Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1028-1033

  Kessler, Kirn R ^a   Schnitzler, Alfons ^a   Classen, Joseph ^a   Benecke, Reiner ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0037044289     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.59.7.1028     Document Type: Article

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