Interhemispheric enhancement of somatosensory cortical excitability through contralateral repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1637-1644

  Meehan, Sean K ^a   Linsdell, Meghan A ^a   Handy, Todd C ^a   Boyd, Lara A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

CTBS; RTMS; Sensorimotor; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Task demands

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; REST; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960266072     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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