Exploring the after-effects of theta burst magnetic stimulation on the human motor cortex: A functional imaging study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1948-1960

  Cárdenas Morales, Lizbeth ^a   Grön, Georg ^a   Kammer, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

BOLD decrease; Choice reaction time; Human motor cortex; Network facilitation; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; Subthreshold stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTIGRAPHY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THETA RHYTHM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; OXYGEN; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; REACTION TIME; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052857728     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21160     Document Type: Article

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