Influence of stimulation intensity on paired-pulse suppression of human median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials

NeuroReport

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 451-456

  Gatica Tossi, Mario A ^a   Lillemeier, Ann Sophie ^a   Dinse, Hubert R ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Median nerve; Paired pulse behavior; Paired pulse suppression; Short term plasticity; Somatosensory cortex; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Stimulation intensity

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MEDIAN NERVE SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879161759     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: 1473558X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283616378     Document Type: Article

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