Clinical Neurophysiology
Volume 121, Issue 4 , Pages 492-501 , April 2010

EEG oscillations and magnetically evoked motor potentials reflect motor system excitability in overlapping neuronal populations

  • Hanna Mäki

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 2200, FI-02015 TKK, Espoo, Finland. Tel.: +358 44 335 85 85; fax: +358 9 4702 3182.
    • ,
  • Risto J. Ilmoniemi

,Accepted 22 November 2009.

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Clinical Neurophysiology
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