Acute changes in frontoparietal activity after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in a cued reaction time task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 38, 2006, Pages 9629-9638

  Rounis, Elisabeth ^a   Stephan, Klaas E ^a   Lee, Lucy ^a   Siebner, Hartwig R ^b   Pesenti, A ^e   Friston, Karl J ^a   Rothwell, John C ^a   Frackowiak, Richard S J ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^d IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^e IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attention; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Functional imaging; Posner task; Reorienting; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BLOOD OXYGENATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33748902957     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2657-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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