Opportunities for concurrent transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography to characterize cortical activity in stroke

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Sato, Sumire ^a   Bergmann, Til Ole ^b   Borich, Michael R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Cortical excitability; Electroencephalography; Rehabilitation; Stroke; TMS EEG; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONVALESCENCE; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PROGNOSIS; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84933675843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00250     Document Type: Article

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