Effects of lamotrigine on human motor cortex plasticity

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 148-153

  Delvendahl, Igor ^a   Lindemann, Hannes ^b   Heidegger, Tonio ^c   Normann, Claus ^b   Ziemann, Ulf ^d   Mall, Volker ^e  

^a EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

AED; Lamotrigine; Long term potentiation; Mood disorders; Motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

LAMOTRIGINE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTICONVULSANTS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; REFERENCE VALUES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRIAZINES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871403294     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2012.05.011     Document Type: Article

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