Establishing the definition and inter-rater reliability of cortical silent period calculation in subjects with focal hand dystonia and healthy controls

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 464, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 84-87

  Kimberley, Teresa Jacobson ^a   Borich, Michael R ^a   Prochaska, Kristina D ^a   Mundfrom, Shannon L ^a   Perkins, Ariel E ^a   Poepping, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Cortical silent period; Definition; Focal hand dystonia; Methodology; Reliability; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CORTICAL SILENT PERIOD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; FOCAL HAND DYSTONIA; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DYSTONIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; OBSERVER VARIATION; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 69549122292     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.08.029     Document Type: Article

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