Depressed intracortical inhibition after long trains of subthreshold repetitive magnetic stimuli at low frequency

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2416-2422

  Modugno, Nicola ^a   Currà, Antonio ^a,b   Conte, Antonella ^b   Inghilleri, Maurizio ^b   Fofi, Luisa ^b   Agostino, Rocco ^a   Manfredi, Mario ^a,b   Berardelli, Alfredo ^a,b  

^a IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intracortical facilitation; Intracortical inhibition; Motor cortex; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STIMULUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0344687369     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(03)00262-1     Document Type: Article

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