Single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation of parietal and prefrontal areas in a memory delay arm pointing task

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 3344-3350

  Smyrnis, Nikolaos ^a,b   Theleritis, Christos ^a   Evdokimidis, Ioannis ^a   Müri, Rene M ^c   Karandreas, Nikos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ARM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0037603327     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00810.2002     Document Type: Article

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