Motor cortex stimulation for ALS: A double blind placebo-controlled study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 464, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-21

  Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo ^a,b   Pilato, Fabio ^a   Profice, Paolo ^a   Ranieri, Federico ^a   Musumeci, Gabriella ^a   Florio, Lucia ^a   Beghi, Ettore ^a,c   Frisullo, Giovanni ^a   Capone, Fioravante ^a   Sabatelli, Mario ^a   Tonali, Pietro A ^a,b   Dileone, Michele ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^c MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

Author keywords

ALS; Glutamate; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PILOT PROJECTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 69249217665     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.08.020     Document Type: Article

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