Origin of facilitation in repetitive, 1.5 ms interval, paired pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (rPPS) of the human motor cortex

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1596-1601

  Hamada, Masashi ^a   Hanajima, Ritsuko ^a   Terao, Yasuo ^a   Arai, Noritoshi ^a   Furubayashi, Toshiaki ^a   Inomata Terada, Satomi ^a   Yugeta, Akihiro ^a   Matsumoto, Hideyuki ^a   Shirota, Yuichiro ^a   Ugawa, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a University of Tokyo   (Japan)

Author keywords

I wave periodicity; Monophasic pulse; Motor cortex; Paired pulse stimulation; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN STEM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34249711808     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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