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Bidirectional modulation of sensory cortical excitability by quadripulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (QPS) in humans
27 January 2012
Setsu Nakatani-Enomoto, Ritstuko Hanajima, Masashi Hamada, Yasuo Terao, Hideyuki Matsumoto, Yuichiro Shirota, Shingo Okabe, Masaki Hirose, Koichiro Nakamura, Toshiaki Furubayashi, Shunsuke Kobayashi, Hitoshi Mochizuki, Hiroyuki Enomoto, Yoshikazu Ugawa
Highlights: ► The newly designed quadripulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (QPS) was applied to the study of long-lasting sensory cortical excitability changes in humans. ► Sensory cortical excita...
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Upper-extremity H-reflex measurement post-stroke: Reliability and inter-limb differences
25 January 2012
Chetan P. Phadke, Christopher T. Robertson, Elizabeth G. Condliffe, Carolynn Patten
Highlights: ► Flexor carpi radialis (FCR) H-reflexes can be reliably evoked in non-disabled participants and in both paretic and non-paretic arms of participants post-stroke. ► FCR H-reflexes (recruit...
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The utility of amplitude-integrated EEG and NIRS measurements as indices of hypoxic ischaemia in the newborn pig
25 January 2012
Dandan Zhang, Xinlin Hou, Yunfeng Liu, Congle Zhou, Yuejia Luo, Haiyan Ding
Highlights: ► Early detection and stratification of hypoxic-ischaemia (HI) injury in neonates are crucial for reducing the risk of disability or death. ► Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) was highly s...
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Selective autonomic failure: Ross syndrome
20 January 2012
Vaughan G. Macefield
Nature has given neurology quite a few gems of disordered neural function that highlight, on the one hand, how extensive the influence of a particular neuronal control system is and, on the other, how...
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Somatosensory evoked potentials are of additional prognostic value in certain patterns of brain injury in term birth asphyxia
20 January 2012
Renate M.C. Swarte, Perumpillichira J. Cherian, Maarten Lequin, Gerhard H. Visser, Paul Govaert
Highlights: ► SEPs can be of additional prognostic value to EEG and MRI in term asphyxiated newborns. ► Unilaterally abnormal SEP in combination with unilateral injury in the posterior frontal cortex ...
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