Threshold curves for transcranial magnetic stimulation to improve reliability of motor pathway status assessment

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 975-983

  Julkunen, Petro ^a   Ruohonen, Jarmo ^b   Sääskilahti, Saara ^a,c   Säisänen, Laura ^a,c   Karhu, Jari ^b,c  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Nexstim Oy   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cortex; Excitability; Motor evoked potential; Motor threshold; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; INJURY; MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79953028743     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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