Effects of the motor cortical quadripulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (QPS) on the contralateral motor cortex and interhemispheric interactions

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 26-35

  Tsutsumi, Ryosuke ^a   Hanajima, Ritsuko ^a   Terao, Yasuo ^a   Shirota, Yuichiro ^a   Ohminami, Shinya ^a   Shimizu, Takahiro ^a   Tanaka, Nobuyuki ^a   Ugawa, Yoshikazu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corpus callosum; Interhemispheric facilitation; Interhemispheric inhibition; Plasticity; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPULSE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

CORPUS CALLOSUM; INTERHEMISPHERIC FACILITATION; INTERHEMISPHERIC INHIBITION; PLASTICITY; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84891548376     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00515.2013     Document Type: Article

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