Chapter 44 Transcranial magnetic stimulation for upper motor neuron involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

Supplements to Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 59, Issue C, 2006, Pages 327-332

  Mitsumoto, H ^a   Floyd, A ^a   Tang, M X ^b   Kaufmann, P ^a   Battista, V ^a   Hristova, A ^a   Pullman, S L ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; HUMAN; MOTONEURON; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33748641723     PISSN: 1567424X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-424X(09)70048-0     Document Type: Article

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