A method to measure the distribution of latencies of motor evoked potentials in man

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 176-182

  Firmin, Lea ^a   Müller, Samuel ^b   Rösler, Kai M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Central conduction time; Motor evoked potentials; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Triple stimulation technique

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRIPLE STIMULATION TECHNIQUE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AXONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650171929     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.05.034     Document Type: Article

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