Exploring motor cortical plasticity using transcranial magnetic stimulation in humans

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1048, Issue , 2005, Pages 175-184

  Ilić, Tihomir V ^a   Ziemann, Ulf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DEFENCE   (Serbia)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human; Motor cortex plasticity; Motor learning; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ION; DEXAMPHETAMINE; DEXTROMETHORPHAN; LAMOTRIGINE; LORAZEPAM; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PRAZOSIN; SCOPOLAMINE; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONVALESCENCE; DEAFFERENTATION; EVALUATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECHNIQUE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 25144443568     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1342.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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