Multichannel SEP-recording after paired median nerve stimulation suggests origin of paired-pulse inhibition rostral of the brainstem

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 468, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 308-311

  Höffken, Oliver ^a   Lenz, Melanie ^a   Tegenthoff, Martin ^a   Schwenkreis, Peter ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evoked potentials; Excitability; Paired pulse inhibition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIRED PULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ADULT; BRAIN STEM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72249116311     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.11.021     Document Type: Article

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