Correlation between motor and phosphene thresholds: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 662-670

  Deblieck, Choi ^a   Thompson, Benjamin ^a   Iacoboni, Marco ^a,b   Wu, Allan D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Motor threshold (MT); Phosphene threshold (PT); Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL THRESHOLD; VOLUNTEER;

BRAIN MAPPING; CALIBRATION; DARK ADAPTATION; DARKNESS; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PHOSPHENES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 44849130518     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20427     Document Type: Article

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