Effects of a high-frequency, low-intensity, biphasic conditioning train of TMS pulses on the human motor cortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 462, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 188-192

  Arai, Noritoshi ^a   Furubayashi, Toshiaki ^a,b   Inomata Terada, Satomi ^a   Okabe, Shingo ^a   Kobayashi Iwata, Nobue ^a   Hanajima, Ritsuko ^a   Terao, Yasuo ^a   Ugawa, Yoshikazu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Intracortical inhibition and facilitation; Low intensity; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS); Train of TMS pulses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 67849093973     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.06.062     Document Type: Article

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