Navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation does not decrease the variability of motor-evoked potentials

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 87-94

  Jung, Nikolai H ^a   Delvendahl, Igor ^a   Kuhnke, Nicola G ^a   Hauschke, Dieter ^a   Stolle, Sabine ^a   Mall, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

navigation; transcranial magnetic stimulation; variability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INPUT DEVICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; DEVICES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956680263     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2009.10.003     Document Type: Article

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