Impact of pulse duration in single pulse TMS

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 121, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1915-1921

  Rothkegel, H ^a   Sommer, M ^a   Paulus, W ^a   Lang, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical silent period; Motor evoked potential; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTRIC FIELD; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HAND; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL RECRUITMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; STANDARDS; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; REACTION TIME; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956918411     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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