Determining which mechanisms lead to activation in the motor cortex: A modeling study of transcranial magnetic stimulation using realistic stimulus waveforms and sulcal geometry

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 748-758

  Salvador, R ^a   Silva, S ^a   Basser, P J ^b   Miranda, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation; FEM; Mechanism; Motor cortex; TMS; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPARTMENT MODEL; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; GRAY MATTER; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE POTENTIAL; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INTERNEURONS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952312163     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.09.022     Document Type: Article

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