Enhancing the effect of repetitive I-wave paired-pulse TMS (iTMS) by adjusting for the individual I-wave periodicity

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Sewerin, Sebastian ^a   Taubert, Marco ^a   Vollmann, Henning ^a   Conde, Virginia ^a   Villringer, Arno ^a   Ragert, Patrick ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

paired pulse stimulation; transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)I wave periodicitymotor evoked potential (MEP)primary motor cortex (M1)corticospinal excitability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79955975800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-12-45     Document Type: Article

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