Modulation of the cortical silent period elicited by single- and paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Kojima, Sho ^a   Onishi, Hideaki ^a   Sugawara, Kazuhiro ^a   Kirimoto, Hikari ^a   Suzuki, Makoto ^a   Tamaki, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cortical silent period; Intracortical facilitation; Motor evoked potential; Short interval intracortical inhibition; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONDITIONING; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT INHIBITION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPHYSICS; CORTICAL SPREADING DEPRESSION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875513783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-14-43     Document Type: Article

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