Corticospinal excitability and sleep: A motor threshold assessment by transcranial magnetic stimulation after awakenings from REM and NREM sleep

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-36

  Bertini, Mario ^a   Ferrara, Michele ^a,b   De Gennaro, Luigi ^a   Curcio, Giuseppe ^a   Fratello, Fabiana ^a   Romei, Vincenzo ^a   Pauri, Flavia ^c   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^d,e  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^e SAN GIOVANNI ADDOLORATA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Motor evoked potentials; Motor thresholds; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERPOLARIZATION; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; REM SLEEP; SLEEP; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 1642302171     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2869.2003.00379.x     Document Type: Article

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