Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation-induced changes in sensorimotor coupling parallel improvements of somatosensation in humans

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1945-1952

  Pleger, Burkhard ^a   Blankenburg, Felix ^a   Bestmann, Sven ^a   Ruff, Christian C ^a,b   Wiech, Katja ^a,c   Stephan, Klaas E ^a   Friston, Karl J ^a   Dolan, Raymond J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Effective connectivity; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Perception; Plasticity; Repetitive transcranial stimulation; Sensorimotor coupling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; TOUCH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33644544785     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4097-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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