Navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation and computed electric field strength reduce stimulator-dependent differences in the motor threshold

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 116-122

  Danner, Nils ^a   Julkunen, Petro ^a   Könönen, Mervi ^a   Säisänen, Laura ^a   Nurkkala, Jouko ^a   Karhu, Jari ^a,b  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Nexstim Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Electric field; Motor threshold; Navigated brain stimulation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONAVIGATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 49549125397     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.06.032     Document Type: Article

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