State of the art: Pharmacologic effects on cortical excitability measures tested by transcranial magnetic stimulation

State of the art: Pharmacologic effects on cortical excitability measures tested by transcranial magnetic stimulation

The combination of brain stimulation techniques like transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with CNS active drugs in humans now offers a unique opportunity to explore the physiologic effects of these substances in vivo in the human brain. Motor threshold, motor evoked potential size, motor evoked p...

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Main Authors: Walter Paulus, MD, Joseph Classen, MD, Leonardo G. Cohen, MD, Charles H. Large, PhD, Vincenzo Di Lazzaro, MD, Michael Nitsche, MD, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD, F. Rosenow, MD, John C. Rothwell, PhD, Ulf Ziemann, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2008-07-01
Series:Brain Stimulation
Subjects:
transcranial magnetic stimulation
TMS
pharmacology
ICI
ICF
silent period
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1935861X08000387

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