Effects of antiepileptic drugs on associative LTP-like plasticity in human motor cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1215-1222

  Heidegger, Tonio ^a   Krakow, Karsten ^a,b   Ziemann, Ulf ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Asklepios Neurologische Klinik Falkenstein   (Germany)

Author keywords

AED; Epilepsy; Levetiracetam; Long term potentiation; Paired associative transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; DIAZEPAM; ETIRACETAM; GABAPENTIN; LAMOTRIGINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PIRACETAM; SODIUM CHANNEL; TIAGABINE; TOPIRAMATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EPILEPTOGENESIS; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR CORTEX; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649375128     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07375.x     Document Type: Article

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