EEG oscillations and magnetically evoked motor potentials reflect motor system excitability in overlapping neuronal populations

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 492-501

  Mäki, Hanna ^a,b   Ilmoniemi, Risto J ^a,b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Electroencephalography; Motor evoked potential; Motor system; Spontaneous oscillations; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN CELL; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649185469     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.11.078     Document Type: Article

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