Test-retest reliability of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) at the submental muscle group during volitional swallowing

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 134-137

  Doeltgen, Sebastian H ^a,b   Ridding, Michael C ^c   O'Beirne, Greg A ^a,b   Dalrymple Alford, John ^a,b   Huckabee, Maggie Lee ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Van der Veer Institute New Zealand   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Deglutition; Motor evoked potentials; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE TRACT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBMENTAL MUSCLE; SWALLOWING; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLITIONAL SWALLOWING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEGLUTITION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 59249098657     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.12.005     Document Type: Article

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