Subthreshold high-frequency TMS of human primary motor cortex modulates interconnected frontal motor areas as detected by interleaved fMRI-TMS

NeuroImage

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1685-1696

  Bestmann, Sven ^a,b   Baudewig, Jürgen ^a   Siebner, Hartwig R ^c   Rothwell, John C ^b   Frahm, Jens ^a  

^a Biomedizinische NMR Forschungs GmbH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

BOLD; Echo planar imaging; Motor cortex; rTMS; SMA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0344552764     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.07.028     Document Type: Article

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