| Literature DB >> 22116658 |
Stefan Jun Groiss1, Yoshikazu Ugawa.
Abstract
The cerebellum plays an important role in movement execution and motor control by modulation of the primary motor cortex (M1) through cerebello-thalamo-cortical connections. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) allows direct investigations of neural networks by stimulating neural structures in humans noninvasively. The motor evoked potential to single-pulse TMS of M1 is used to measure the motor cortical excitability. A conditioning stimulus over the cerebellum preceding a test stimulus of the contralateral M1 enables us to study the cerebellar regulatory functions on M1. In this brief review, we describe this cerebellar stimulation method and its usefulness as a diagnostic tool in clinical neurophysiology.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22116658 DOI: 10.1007/s12311-011-0329-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cerebellum ISSN: 1473-4222 Impact factor: 3.847