The role of interneuron networks in driving human motor cortical plasticity

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1593-1605

  Hamada, Masashi ^a   Murase, Nagako ^a,b   Hasan, Alkomiet ^a,c   Balaratnam, Michelle ^a   Rothwell, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYOTO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

LTD; LTP; Motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL SULCUS; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA BURST STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

LTD; LTP; MOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878839127     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs147     Document Type: Article

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