A comparison of two methods for estimating 50% of the maximal motor evoked potential

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 126, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2337-2341

  Pitcher, Julia B ^a   Doeltgen, Sebastian H ^a   Goldsworthy, Mitchell R ^a   Schneider, Luke A ^a   Vallence, Ann Maree ^a   Smith, Ashleigh E ^a   Semmler, John G ^b   McDonnell, Michelle N ^c   Ridding, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Children; Corticomotor stimulus response curves; First dorsal interosseous; Motor evoked potential; Resting motor threshold

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84948720726     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2015.02.011     Document Type: Article

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