Assessment of cortical excitability using threshold tracking techniques

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 477-486

  Vucic, Steve ^a,b   Howells, James ^c   Trevillion, Louise ^c   Kiernan, Matthew C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Threshold tracking; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT INTERVAL INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33645331591     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20481     Document Type: Article

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