Magnetic stimulation of human premotor or motor cortex produces interhemispheric facilitation through distinct pathways

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 572, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 857-868

  Bäumer, Tobias ^a   Bock, Franka ^a   Koch, Giacomo ^b   Lange, Rüdiger ^a   Rothwell, John C ^b   Siebner, Hartwig R ^c,d,e,f   Münchau, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NeuroImage Nord   (Germany)

^d NeuroImage Nord   (Germany)

^e NeuroImage Nord   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CELL POPULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMUSCULAR FACILITATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIAL DURATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; INTERHEMISPHERIC FACILITATION; INTERNEURON; LATENT PERIOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33645829102     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.104901     Document Type: Article

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