Corticomotor responses to triple-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation: Effects of interstimulus interval and stimulus intensity

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 36-40

  Sacco, Paul ^a   Turner, Duncan ^a   Rothwell, John ^b   Thickbroom, Gary ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

corticomotor plasticity; I waves; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIME;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 58249089784     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2008.06.255     Document Type: Article

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