Consensus: New methodologies for brain stimulation

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 2-13

  Huang, Ying Zu ^a   Sommer, Martin ^b   Thickbroom, Gary ^c   Hamada, Masashi ^d   Pascual Leonne, Alvero ^e   Paulus, Walter ^b   Classen, Joseph ^f   Peterchev, Angel V ^g   Zangen, Abraham ^h   Ugawa, Yoshikazu ⁱ  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^g Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^h WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

ⁱ FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

alternating current stimulation; monophasic and biphasic pulses; paired and quadri pulse stimulation; theta burst stimulation; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN REGION; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLABLE PULSE SHAPE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; DEEP BRAIN TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; HUMAN; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METHODOLOGY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROLOGICAL AND SENSORIAL PROCEDURES; PAIRED ASSOCIATIVE STIMULATION; PAIRED PULSE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRI PULSE STIMULATION; REPETITIVE MONOPHASIC PULSE STIMULATION; REVIEW; THETA BURST STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BRAIN; DEVICES; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 58249135609     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2008.09.007     Document Type: Review

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