Paired transcranial magnetic stimulation in hemifacial spasm

Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 89-94

  Çelik, Münevver ^a,c   Oge A E ^b   Kilic E ^a   Forta, H ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACIAL NERVE NUCLEUS; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; ORBICULARIS ORIS MUSCLE; REST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FACIAL MUSCLES; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION;

EID: 1542411348     PISSN: 0301150X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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