Impaired interhemispheric inhibition in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 112-118

  Karandreas, Nikos ^a   Papadopoulou, Marianna ^a   Kokotis, Panagiotis ^a   Papapostolou, Apostolos ^a   Tsivgoulis, Giorgos ^a   Zambelis, Thomas ^a  

^a NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

ALS; Corpus callosum; Interhemispheric inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 34247276681     PISSN: 17482968     EISSN: 1471180X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17482960601030113     Document Type: Article

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