Cortical silent period following TMS in a patient with supplementary sensorimotor area seizures

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 439-443

  Nardone, Raffaele ^a   Venturi, Alessandro ^a   Ausserer, Harald ^a   Ladurner, Günther ^b   Tezzon, Frediano ^a  

^a FRANZ TAPPEINER HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cortical silent period; Primary motor area; Superior frontal gyrus; Supplementary sensorimotor area; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EPILEPTOGENESIS; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROEPITHELIOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; EPILEPSY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEOPLASMS, NEUROEPITHELIAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REACTION TIME; TERATOMA; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 37449008115     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-007-1208-5     Document Type: Article

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