Visual deprivation effects on human motor cortex excitability

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 389, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-20

  Leon Sarmiento, Fidias E ^a,b   Bara Jimenez, William ^a   Wassermann, Eric M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; EYE; EYELID CLOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

DARKNESS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LIGHT; MAGNETICS; MOTOR CORTEX; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISION;

EID: 24044469316     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.06.061     Document Type: Article

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