Silent period to transcranial magnetic stimulation: Construction and properties of stimulus-response curves in healthy volunteers

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-31

  Kimiskidis, V K ^a   Papagiannopoulos, S ^a   Sotirakoglou, K ^b   Kazis, D A ^a   Kazis, A ^a   Mills, K R ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boltzman function; Human; Silent period; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

OXCARBAZEPINE;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICONVULSANTS; CARBAMAZEPINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EPILEPSY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; REFERENCE VALUES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 20944444739     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-004-2134-4     Document Type: Article

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