Transcranial magnetic stimulation: New insights into representational cortical plasticity

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-16

  Siebner, Hartwig Roman ^a   Rothwell, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human cortex; Imaging; Mapping; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; Representational plasticity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; HUMAN; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REFERENCE VALUE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETICS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REFERENCE VALUES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0037213651     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1234-2     Document Type: Review

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