Motor cortical excitability in patients with poststroke epilepsy

Epilepsia

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 117-124

  Kim, Jee Hyun ^a   Lee, Hyang Woon ^a   Cohen, Leonardo G ^b   Park, Kee Duk ^a   Choi, Kyoung Gyu ^a  

^a Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Motor evoked potentials; Poststroke epilepsy; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

CARBAMAZEPINE; GABAPENTIN; PHENYTOIN; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SILENT PERIOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HEMISPHERE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; POSTSTROKE EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLUTAMATES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; REST; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 37549021133     PISSN: 00139580     EISSN: 15281167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1167.2007.01231.x     Document Type: Article

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