State of the art: Physiology of transcranial motor cortex stimulation

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 345-362

  Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo ^a   Ziemann, Ulf ^b   Lemon, Roger N ^c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

corticospinal system; I waves; motor cortex; pyramidal cell; transcranial stimulation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVOKED SPINAL CORD RESPONSE; HUMAN; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMUSCULAR FACILITATION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PYRAMIDAL TRACT;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 56349132698     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2008.07.004     Document Type: Review

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