Spasticity, a classical clinical manifestation of an upper motor neuron lesion, has been
traditionally and physiologically defined as a velocity dependent increase in muscle tone …

Spasticity is a frequent and often disabling feature of neurological disease. It may result in
loss of mobility and pain from spasms. The core feature of the spastic state is the …

We studied the effect of stimulus intensity, coil size, mental alertness and prestimulus muscle
contraction on the variability of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) produced by magnetic …

We examined the relationship between the recovery of hand and arm function in a group of
hemiplegic stroke patients and the presence of short-latency EMG responses to transcranial …

Background and Purpose—The early prognostic application of transcranial magnetic brain
stimulation (TMS) for assessing motor and functional recovery in ischemic stroke patients …

Numerous clinical studies on patients after hemispherectomy (HS) have provided clear
evidence that two distinct groups can be recognized on the basis of the quality of their motor …

Amplitudes of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) are usually much smaller than those of motor
responses to maximal peripheral nerve stimulation, and show marked variation between …

Magnetic stimulation of brain and spinal roots provides a non-invasive evaluation of nervous
propagation as well as of motor cortex excitability in healthy subjects and in patients affected …

OBJECTIVE: Intraoperative monitoring of transcranial motor evoked potentials (TcMEPs) has
been investigated recently as a means of preventing motor deficits associated with resection …

We hypothesized that human handedness might be associated with measurable differences
in the excitability of the motor system. We compared the thresholds for electromyographic …