Comparison of different methods for estimating motor threshold with transcranial magnetic stimulation

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 118, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2120-2122

  Hanajima, Ritsuko ^a   Wang, Renbin ^b   Nakatani Enomoto, Setsu ^a   Hamada, Masashi ^a   Terao, Yasuo ^a   Furubayashi, Toshiaki ^a   Okabe, Shingo ^a   Inomata Terada, Satomi ^a   Yugeta, Akihiro ^a   Rothwell, John C ^c   Ugawa, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b CHINA JAPAN FRIENDSHIP HOSPITAL   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXCITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LETTER; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34547505688     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.05.067     Document Type: Letter

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