Transcranial magnetic stimulation in heterogeneous brain tissue: Clinical impact on focality, reproducibility and true sham stimulation

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 255-264

  Toschi, Nicola ^a   Welt, Tobias ^b   Guerrisi, Maria ^a   Keck, Martin E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

^c Neuroscience Center Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Conductivity; Current density; Electrostatic; Finite difference; Isotropic; Quasistatic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONDUCTANCE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 57849105510     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2008.04.008     Document Type: Article

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