A Higher Number of TMS-Elicited MEP from a Combined Hotspot Improves Intra- and Inter-Session Reliability of the Upper Limb Muscles in Healthy Individuals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Bastani, Andisheh ^a   Jaberzadeh, Shapour ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXTENSOR CARPI RADIALIS MUSCLE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FIRST DORSAL INTEROSSEUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RELIABILITY; STUDENT T TEST; TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84867552915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047582     Document Type: Article

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