TMS-EEG signatures of GABAergic neurotransmission in the human cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 5603-5612

  Premoli, Isabella ^a,b   Castellanos, Nazareth ^c   Rivolta, Davide ^d,e,f   Belardinelli, Paolo ^g   Bajo, Ricardo ^c   Zipser, Carl ^h   Espenhahn, Svenja ^a,b   Heidegger, Tonio ^h   Müller Dahlhaus, Florian ^a   Ziemann, Ulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b International Max Planck Research School   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f ERNST STRÜNGMANN INSTITUTE ESI FOR NEUROSCIENCE IN COOPERATION WITH MAX PLANCK SOCIETY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^h GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electroencephalography; GABA; Human cortex; Inhibition; Pharmaco TMS EEG; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALPRAZOLAM; BACLOFEN; DIAZEPAM; PLACEBO; ZOLPIDEM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTRONYSTAGMOGRAPHY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VELOCITY;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GABA; HUMAN CORTEX; INHIBITION; PHARMACO-TMS-EEG; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; GABA AGENTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899485855     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5089-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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