Mechanisms underlying long-interval cortical inhibition in the human motor cortex: A TMS-EEG study

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 89-98

  Rogasch, Nigel C ^a   Daskalakis, Zafiris J ^b   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^a  

^a Australia   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortical inhibition; Electroencephalography; Motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EXCITATION; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84871879436     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00762.2012     Document Type: Article

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