Seizure produced by 20Hz transcranial magnetic stimulation during isometric muscle contraction in a healthy subject

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2326-2327

  Edwardson, M ^a   Fetz, E E ^a   Avery, D H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; EPILEPSY; ETHICS; FEMALE; FOREARM; INNERVATION; MAGNETISM; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SEIZURE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SYNCOPE;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EPILEPSY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEIZURES; SYNCOPE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 80053194521     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.04.005     Document Type: Letter

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