Motor cortex excitability changes following a lesion in the posterior columns of the cervical spinal cord

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 434, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 119-123

  Nardone, Raffaele ^a   Golaszewski, Stefan ^b   Bergmann, Jürgen ^b   Venturi, Alessandro ^a   Prünster, Igor ^c   Bratti, Arianna ^a   Ladurner, Günther ^b   Tezzon, Frediano ^a  

^a FRANZ TAPPEINER HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cortical silent period; Posterior columns; Somatosensory afferents; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MYELITIS, TRANSVERSE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROPRIOCEPTION; SOMATOSENSORY DISORDERS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 40649085990     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.01.038     Document Type: Article

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