Transcranial magnetic stimulation in different current directions activates separate cortical circuits

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 749-756

  Ni, Zhen ^a   Charab, Samer ^a   Gunraj, Carolyn ^a   Nelson, Aimee J ^a   Udupa, Kaviraja ^a   Yeh, I Jin ^a   Chen, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 79951837296     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00640.2010     Document Type: Article

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