Using paired pulse TMS to facilitate contralateral and ipsilateral MEPs in upper extremity muscles of chronic hemiparetic stroke patients

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 151-160

  Schwerin, Susan C ^a,b   Yao, Jun ^b   Dewald, Julius P A ^a,b,c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Interstimulus interval; Paired pulse; Stroke; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Upper extremity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR DELTOID MUSCLE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; BRACHIORADIALIS MUSCLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CAPSULA INTERNA; CENTRAL SULCUS; CHRONIC PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); DELTOID MUSCLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DORSAL INTEROSSEUS MUSCLE; ELBOW; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXTENSOR CARPI RADIALIS MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR CARPI RADIALIS MUSCLE; HAND; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INSULA; INTERMEDIATE DELTOID MUSCLE; LATISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; POSTERIOR DELTOID MUSCLE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROKE; THALAMUS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; TRICEPS BRACHII LATERAL HEAD MUSCLE; TRICEPS BRACHII LONG HEAD MUSCLE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; TRUNK; WRIST; WRIST FLEXOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 78751705542     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.11.021     Document Type: Article

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