Possible transcallosal seizure induction by paired pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation in a patient with frontal lobe epilepsy[1]

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 454-455

  Reis, J ^a   Rosenow, F ^a   Fritsch, B ^a   Knake, S ^a   Oertel, W H ^a   Kamer, H M ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC AURA; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FACILITATION; FRONTAL LOBE EPILEPSY; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LETTER; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SEIZURE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPIKE; TENDON REFLEX;

ADOLESCENT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; SEIZURES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 14544305040     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2004.042127     Document Type: Letter

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