The influence of gender, hand dominance, and upper extremity length on motor evoked potentials

Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 427-436

  Livingston, Scott C ^a   Goodkin, Howard P ^b   Ingersoll, Christopher D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

evoked potentials; neuromonitoring; neurophysiology; transcranial motor evoked potentials (TcMEPs)

Indexed keywords

CASE-CONTROL; CONFLICTING EVIDENCE; COVARIATES; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIALS; NEUROMONITORING; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SOURCES OF VARIABILITY; SURFACE EMG; TRANSCRANIAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPPER EXTREMITY; UPPER LIMBS;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MUSCLE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARM; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ARM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; SEX FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951813865     PISSN: 13871307     EISSN: 15732614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10877-010-9267-8     Document Type: Article

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