Motor threshold in transcranial magnetic stimulation: The impact of white matter fiber orientation and skull-to-cortex distance

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2044-2055

  Herbsman, Tal ^a   Forster, Lauren ^a   Molnar, Christine ^b   Dougherty, Robert ^c   Christie, Doug ^a   Koola, Jejo ^a   Ramsey, Dave ^d   Morgan, Paul S ^e,f,g   Bohning, Daryl E ^a,h   George, Mark S ^a,h   Nahas, Ziad ^a,h,i  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Center for Mindful Exposure Therapy of Anxiety (META) and Stress Management   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d South Carolina Research Authority   (United States)

^e Department of Physics ^*  (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^h MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

ⁱ MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

DTI; Fiber tracking; Motor threshold; MRI; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SKULL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 67649668950     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20649     Document Type: Article

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