Brain stimulation and brain repair - RTMS: From animal experiment to clinical trials - What do we know?

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 387-398

  Platz, Thomas ^a   Rothwell, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APHASIA; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DOWN REGULATION; DYSPHAGIA; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEMISPATIAL NEGLECT; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPULSE STIMULATION; REVIEW; STROKE; THETA BURST STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; PAIN; PARKINSON DISEASE; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77956260121     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2010-0570     Document Type: Review

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