Short-term and long-term plasticity interaction in human primary motor cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1908-1915

  Iezzi, Ennio ^a   Suppa, Antonio ^a,b   Conte, Antonella ^a,b   Li Voti, Pietro ^a,b   Bologna, Matteo ^a,b   Berardelli, Alfredo ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Plasticity; Primary motor cortex; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; Theta burst stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM POTENTIATION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79955944629     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07674.x     Document Type: Article

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