Enhancing putative mirror neuron activity with magnetic stimulation: A single-case functional neuroimaging study

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2013, Pages e1-

  Meherwan Mehta, Urvakhsh ^a   Agarwal, Sri Mahavir ^a   Kalmady, Sunil V ^a   Shivakumar, Venkataram ^a   Kumar, C Naveen ^a   Venkatasubramanian, Ganesan ^a   Thirthalli, Jagadisha ^a   Gangadhar, Bangalore N ^a   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^b   Keshavan, Matcheri S ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AUTISM; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CASE REPORT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HIGH FREQUENCY REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LETTER; MALE; MIRROR NEURON; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL COGNITION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84880035302     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.02.009     Document Type: Letter

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