Double-pulse magnetic brain stem stimulation: Mimicking successive descending volleys

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3437-3444

  Matsumoto, Hideyuki ^a   Hanajima, Ritsuko ^a   Hamada, Masashi ^a   Terao, Yasuo ^a   Yugeta, Akihiro ^a   Inomata Terada, Satomi ^a   Nakatani Enomoto, Setsu ^b   Tsuji, Shoji ^a   Ugawa, Yoshikazu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN STEM; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PULSE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57449121208     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90751.2008     Document Type: Article

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