Motor evoked potential latency, motor threshold and electric field measurements as indices of transcranial magnetic stimulation depth

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 255-258

  Roth, Yiftach ^a   Pell, Gaby S ^a   Zangen, Abraham ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; LATENT PERIOD; LETTER; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MECHANICAL PROBE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SIMULATOR; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 75149136453     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.09.004     Document Type: Letter

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