Normal intracortical excitability in developmental stuttering

Movement Disorders

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 826-830

  Sommer, Martin ^a   Wischer, Stephan ^a   Tergau, Frithjof ^a   Paulus, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intracortical excitability; Persistent developmental stuttering; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DYSTONIA; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; ONSET AGE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUTTERING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STUTTERING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0041589664     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.10443     Document Type: Article

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