A clinical study of motor evoked potentials using a triple stimulation technique

Brain

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 265-279

  Magistris, Michel R ^a   Rosler K M ^b   Truffert, A ^a   Landis, T ^a   Hess, C W ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b Neurologische Universitatsklinik Bern   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Collision technique; Corticospinal tract; Magnetic transcranial stimulation; Quantification of central motor conduction defects; Transcranial cortical stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CERVICAL SPONDYLOSIS; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR UNIT; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MUSCLE; NERVE STIMULATION; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN STEM; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD DISEASES;

EID: 0344507512     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/122.2.265     Document Type: Article

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