On the calculation of transcallosal conduction time using transcranial magnetic stimulation

Functional Neurology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 137-140

  Deftereos, Spyros N ^a,b,c   Panagopoulos, Gregory ^a   Georgonikou, Dimitra ^a   Karageorgiou, Elissaios ^a   Andriopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Karageorgiou, Clementine E ^a  

^a G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b Biovista sa   (United States)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Silent period; Transcallosal conduction time (TCT); Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 58649089327     PISSN: 03935264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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