Modulation of excitability in human primary somatosensory and motor cortex by paired associative stimulation targeting the primary somatosensory cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1292-1300

  Kriváneková, Lucia ^a   Lu, Ming Kuei ^a,b   Bliem, Barbara ^a   Ziemann, Ulf ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Motor evoked potential; Non invasive brain stimulation; Plasticity; Short interval intracortical inhibition; Somatosensory evoked potential

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054697849     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07849.x     Document Type: Article

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