Basic Principles and Methodological Aspects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Transcranial Brain Stimulation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3-39

  Roth, Yiftach ^a   Zangen, Abraham ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.1201/b14174-6     Document Type: Chapter

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