Impact of coil position and electrophysiological monitoring on determination of motor thresholds to transcranial magnetic stimulation

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 812-819

  Conforto, Adriana Bastos ^a,b   Z'Graggen, Werner J ^a   Kohl, Alexandra S ^a   Rösler, Kai M ^a   Kaelin Lang, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hot spot; Human; Motor cortex; Movement threshold; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 1442323691     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2003.11.010     Document Type: Article

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