Transcallosal inhibition in patients with and without alexithymia

Neuropsychobiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 101-107

  Richter, Jan ^a   Möller, Bertram ^a   Spitzer, Carsten ^a   Letzel, Susanne ^a   Bartols, Susanne ^a   Barnow, Sven ^a   Willert, Carsten ^b   Freyberger, Harald Jürgen ^a   Grabe, Hans Jörgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b Neurological Rehabilitation Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Depression; Interhemispheric transfer; Right hemispheric dysfunction; Transcallosal conduction time; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; MONTGOMERY ASBERG DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURAL INHIBITION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33645972904     PISSN: 0302282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000092218     Document Type: Article

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