Magnetic stimulation intensity modulates motor inhibition

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 504, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 93-97

  Berger, U ^a   Korngreen, A ^a   Bar Gad, I ^a   Friedman, A ^a   Wolfus, S ^a   Yeshurun, Y ^a   Lavidor, M ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Motor evoked potentials (MEP); Motor threshold (MT); Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS); Stimulation frequency; Stimulation intensity

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS MUSCLE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 80054007545     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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