Dorsal posterior parietal rTMS affects voluntary orienting of visuospatial attention

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 628-638

  Thut, Gregor ^a,b   Nietzel, Annika ^a,c   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a,d  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d University Institute affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attention; Posterior parietal cortex; rTMS; Spatial disengagement; Spatial orienting

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VOLITION;

EID: 17744372105     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh164     Document Type: Article

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