Inter-session repeatability of cortical excitability measurements in patients with epilepsy

Epilepsy Research

Volumn 98, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 182-186

  Badawy, Radwa A B ^a,b,c   Jackson, Graeme D ^a,b,c   Berkovic, Samuel F ^a,b   Macdonell, Richard A L ^a,b  

^a AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Epilepsy; Session to session repeatability; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPHYSICS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856443351     PISSN: 09201211     EISSN: 18726844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eplepsyres.2011.09.011     Document Type: Article

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