Triple-pulse TMS to study interactions between neural circuits in human cortex

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 281-293

  Ni, Zhen ^a,b   Müller Dahlhaus, Florian ^c   Chen, Robert ^a,b   Ziemann, Ulf ^c  

^a Krembil Neuroscience Centre   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

facilitation; human motor control; inhibition; interaction; motor evoked potential; network; transcranial magnetic stimulation; triple pulse

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; BACLOFEN; DIAZEPAM;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MOTOR CONTROL; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BIOPHYSICS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79958824433     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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