Reply: Plasticity and intracortical inhibition in dystonia-methodological reconsiderations

Brain

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Quartarone, A ^a   Rothwell, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; DYSTONIA; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; LETTER; MEDIAN NERVE; MUSICIAN; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; PAIRED ASSOCIATIVE STIMULATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SYNAPSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRITER'S CRAMP;

EID: 77952996630     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awq025     Document Type: Letter

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