A randomized, controlled investigation of motor cortex transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) effects on quantitative sensory measures in healthy adults: Evaluation of TMS device parameters

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 486-494

  Borckardt, Jeffrey J ^a,c   Reeves, Scott T ^a   Beam, Will ^a   Jensen, Mark P ^a   Gracely, Richard H ^b   Katz, Sophie ^a   Smith, Arthur R ^a   Madan, Alok ^a   Patterson, David ^a   George, Mark S ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

motor cortex; pain; thermal; theta; TMS; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEVICE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79958833406     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e31820d2733     Document Type: Article

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