Responses of single motor units in human masseter to transcranial magnetic stimulation of either hemisphere

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 549, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 583-596

  Pearce, Sophie L ^a   Miles, Timothy S ^a   Thompson, Philip D ^a   Nordstrom, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MONOSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; EXCITATION; FIRING RATE; MONOSYNAPTIC PATHWAY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0038172231     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.035352     Document Type: Article

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