Stable motor cortex excitability in red and green lighting conditions

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 460, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 32-35

  Langguth, Berthold ^a   Eichhammer, Peter ^a   Pickert, Karin ^a   Frank, Ulrike ^a   Perna, Martin ^a,b   Landgrebe, Michael ^a   Frick, Ulrich ^a   Hajak, Goeran ^a   Sand, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Colour blindness; Colour stimulation; Cortical excitability; Intracortical inhibition; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR BLINDNESS; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GREEN LIGHT; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED LIGHT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR VISION; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349187339     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.05.034     Document Type: Article

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