Trigeminal sensory input elicited by electric or magnetic stimulation interferes with the central motor drive to the intrinsic hand muscles

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1090-1099

  Roman Siebner, Hartwig ^a   Auer, Carola ^a   Roeck, Regina ^a   Conrad, Bastian ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blink reflex; First dorsal interosseus muscle; Magnetic stimulation; Motor evoked response; Motor inhibition; Supraorbital nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EYELID REFLEX; HAND MUSCLE; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; TRIGEMINUS GANGLION;

ADULT; BLINKING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MUSCLES; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 0344654701     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(98)00053-4     Document Type: Article

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