Resting electroencephalogram alpha-power over posterior sites indexes baseline visual cortex excitability

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 203-208

  Romei, Vincenzo ^a,b   Rihs, Tonia ^a,b   Brodbeck, Verena ^a,b   Thut, Gregor ^a,b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpha; Electroencephalography; Oscillatory brain activity; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Visual cortex excitability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 38049132745     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3282f454c4     Document Type: Article

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