Effects on the right motor hand-area excitability produced by low-frequency rTMS over human contralateral homologous cortex

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 551, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 563-573

  Gilio, Francesca ^a   Rizzo, Vincenzo ^b   Siebner, Hartwig R ^c   Rothwell, John C ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HAND; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE TWITCH; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REST; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; CONTRALATERAL CORTICAL SILENT PERIOD; CONTRALATERAL HOMOLOGOUS CORTEX; CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; CORTICOSPINAL EXCITABILITY; INTERHEMISPHERICAL INHIBITION; INTRACORTICAL FACILITATION; IPSILATERAL CORTICAL SILENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; RESTING MOTOR THRESHOLD; RIGHT MOTOR HAND AREA; SHORT INTERVAL INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; TRANSCALLOSAL INHIBITION;

ADULT; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SPINAL CORD; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 0141634237     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.044313     Document Type: Article

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