EEG-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation reveals rapid shifts in motor cortical excitability during the human sleep slow oscillation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 243-253

  Bergmann, Til O ^a,b   Mölle, Matthias ^c   Schmidt, Marlit A ^a   Lindner, Christoph ^a   Marshall, Lisa ^c   Born, Jan ^c,d   Siebner, Hartwig R ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; SLEEP; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855965564     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4792-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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