Mobile phone emissions modulate brain excitability in patients with focal epilepsy

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 448-454

  Tombini, Mario ^a   Pellegrino, Giovanni ^a   Pasqualetti, Patrizio ^b   Assenza, Giovanni ^a   Benvenga, Antonella ^a   Fabrizio, Emma ^a   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain excitability; Electromagnetic fields; Epilepsy; Mobile phone; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN EXCITABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMPLE PARTIAL SEIZURE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; CELLULAR PHONE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877775780     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2012.07.006     Document Type: Article

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