Inhibitory circuits and the nature of their interactions in the human motor cortex - A pharmacological TMS study

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 586, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 495-514

  Müller Dahlhaus, J Florian M ^a   Liu, Yali ^a,b   Ziemann, Ulf ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; BACLOFEN; DIAZEPAM; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIZZINESS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; INHIBITORY CIRCUIT; LONG INTERVAL INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHARMACOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SHORT INTERVAL INTERHEMISPHERIC INHIBITION; SHORT INTERVAL INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; BACLOFEN; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIAZEPAM; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; GABA AGONISTS; GABA MODULATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; SYNAPSES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 38149142703     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2007.142059     Document Type: Article

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