Interhemispheric effect of parietal TMS on somatosensory response confirmed directly with concurrent TMS-fMRI

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 49, 2008, Pages 13202-13208

  Blankenburg, Felix ^a,b,d   Ruff, Christian C ^a,b   Bestmann, Sven ^b,c   Bjoertomt, Otto ^a   Eshel, Neir ^a   Josephs, Oliver ^b   Weiskopf, Nikolaus ^b   Driver, Jon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; Interhemispheric; Rivalry; SI; Somatosensory; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS CALLOSUM; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; STIMULATION; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; TOUCH; WRIST;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; WRIST;

EID: 58149380772     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3043-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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