Human brain cortical correlates of short-latency afferent inhibition: A combined EEG-TMS study

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 314-323

  Ferreri, Florinda ^a,b   Ponzo, David ^b,c   Hukkanen, Taina ^a   Mervaala, Esa ^a   Könönen, Mervi ^a   Pasqualetti, Patrizio ^b,c   Vecchio, Fabrizio ^c   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^d,e   Määttä, Sara ^a  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^c FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

EEG; EEG TMS coregistration; Navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation; SAI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT LATENCY AFFERENT INHIBITION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL INHIBITION; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863316862     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00796.2011     Document Type: Article

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