Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy as a tool to study the role of GABA in motor-cortical plasticity

NeuroImage

Volumn 86, Issue , 2014, Pages 19-27

  Stagg, Charlotte J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84891628267     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.01.009     Document Type: Review

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