Does the recruitment of excitation and inhibition in the motor cortex differ?

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 419-423

  Werhahn, Konrad J ^a   Behrang Nia, Mehrnousch ^a   Bott, Michael C ^a   Klimpe, Sven ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical silent period; Motor evoked potentials; Recruitment curves; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITATION AND STIMULATION; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 34948883303     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNP.0b013e3181379a69     Document Type: Article

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