The reliability of repeated TMS measures in older adults and in patients with subacute and chronic stroke

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue september, 2015, Pages

  Schambra, Heidi M ^a   Ogden, R Todd ^a   Martínez Hernández, Isis E ^a   Lin, Xuejing ^a   Chang, Y Brenda ^a   Rahman, Asif ^b   Edwards, Dylan J ^c   Krakauer, John W ^d  

^a Motor Performance Laboratory Department of Rehabilitation and Regenerative Medicine Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b City College of New York   (United States)

^c Neural Engineering Group Department of Biomedical Engineering City College of New York ^*  (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; ICC; Measurement error; Reliability; Smallest detectable change; Standard error of the measurement; TMS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84941009877     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00335     Document Type: Article

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