A transcranial magnetic stimulation study of the ipsilateral silent period in lower limb muscles

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 368, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 337-340

  Lo, Y L ^a   Fook Chong, S ^a  

^a SINGAPORE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Interhemispheric inhibition; Ipsilateral silatent period; Lower limb; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 4544343360     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.07.080     Document Type: Article

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