Transcranial magnetic stimulation reduces masseter motoneuron pool excitability throughout the cortical silent period

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1119-1129

  Sowman, Paul F ^a   Flavel, Stanley C ^a   McShane, Christie L ^a   Miles, Timothy S ^a   Nordstrom, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corticobulbar; GABA; Mastication; Silent period; Stretch reflex; Trigeminal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNEURON; JAW MUSCLE; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MASTICATION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURAL INHIBITION; REFLEX, STRETCH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 41449087763     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.12.019     Document Type: Article

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