MAGNETIC STIMULATION IN CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Contributors from neurological and psychological sciences summarize the current state of using magnetic fields to stimulate the brain or nerves either to activate or inhibit them. Writing for both veterans and newcomers to the field, they consider such topics as basic electromagnetism, activating peripheral nerves and nerve roots, central motor conduction and its clinical application, transcranial magnetic stimulation and brain plasticity, movement disorders, the study of fatigue, stroke, evaluating epilepsy and anti-convulsants, potential therapeutic use in psychiatric disorders, eye movements, assessing the respiratory muscle pump, sleep and sleep-related disorders, and children. Updated from the 1990 first edition.