Attention-related changes in short-term cortical plasticity help to explain fatigue in multiple sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1359-1366

  Conte, Antonella ^a,b   Li Voti, Pietro ^a   Pontecorvo, Simona ^a   Quartuccio, Maria Esmeralda ^b   Baione, Viola ^b   Rocchi, Lorenzo ^b   Cortese, Antonio ^b   Bologna, Matteo ^a   Francia, Ada ^b   Berardelli, Alfredo ^a,b  

^a IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

5 Hz rTMS; attention; cortical plasticity; fatigue; Multiple sclerosis; paired associative stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; PAIRED ASSOCIATIVE STIMULATION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SHORT TERM CORTICAL PLASTICITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION SYSTEM; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HAND; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXPANDED DISABILITY STATUS SCALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING; REFLECTING LONG TERM PLASTICITY; REFLECTING SHORT TERM PLASTICITY; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84986588611     PISSN: 13524585     EISSN: 14770970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1352458515619780     Document Type: Article

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