Neural substrates of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation during movement in healthy subjects and acute stroke patients. A PET study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2542-2557

  Conchou, Fabrice ^a,b,c   Loubinoux, Isabelle ^a,b,c   Castel Lacanal, Evelyne ^b,d   Le Tinnier, Anne ^b,d   Gerdelat Mas, Angélique ^d   Faure Marie, Nathalie ^a,b,c   Gros, Helene ^b   Thalamas, Claire ^e   Calvas, Fabienne ^e   Berry, Isabelle ^a,b,c   Chollet, François ^a,b,c,d   Moreau, Marion Simonetta ^a,b,c,d  

^a CHU PURPAN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Institute for Neurosciences IFR 96   (France)

^d Hopitaux de Toulouse   (France)

^e Centre Investigation Clinique   (France)

Author keywords

Positron emission tomography (PET); Primary motor cortex (M1); Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS); Stroke; Transcallosal inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARESIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 67650480155     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20690     Document Type: Article

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