Effect of electrode cap on measured cortical motor threshold

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 225-229

  Julkunen, Petro ^a   Säisänen, Laura ^a   Sarasti, Maria ^a   Könönen, Mervi ^a  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; Motor evoked potential; Motor threshold; Navigated brain stimulation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THENAR; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 57649178940     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.08.023     Document Type: Article

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