Asymmetric responses to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the left and right primary motor cortex in a patient with lateralized progressive limb-kinetic apraxia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 437, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-129

  Gilio, Francesca ^c   Iacovelli, Elisa ^a   Conte, Antonella ^a,b   Frasca, Vittorio ^a   Gabriele, Maria ^a   Giacomelli, Elena ^a   Bettolo, Chiara Marini ^a   Scaldaferri, Nicola ^a   Trebbastoni, Alessandro ^a   Prencipe, Massimiliano ^a   Inghilleri, Maurizio ^a,d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c SANDRO PERTINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cerebral perfusion; Cortical excitability; Limb kinetic apraxia; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; Short term synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

AGED; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; LIMB DISEASE; LIMB KINETIC APRAXIA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

AGED; APRAXIAS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 42749084885     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.03.072     Document Type: Article

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