rTMS over bilateral inferior parietal cortex induces decrement of spatial sustained attention

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue FEB, 2013, Pages

  Lee, Jeyeon ^a   Ku, Jeonghun ^b   Han, Kiwan ^c   Park, Jinsick ^d   Lee, Hyeongrae ^e   Kim, Kyung Ran ^c   Lee, Eun ^c   Husain, Masud ^f   Yoon, Kang Jun ^g   Kim, In Young ^a   Jang, Dong Pyo ^a   Kim, Sun I ^a,h  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b Keimyung University   (South Korea)

^c Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^e Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g St Peters Hospital   (South Korea)

^h Osong Medical Innovation Foundation   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Inferior parietal lobe; Repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation; Spatial attention; Sustained attention; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION;

EID: 84933677181     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00026     Document Type: Article

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