Ipsilateral Motor Responses to Focal Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Healthy Subjects and Acute-Stroke Patients

Abstract

Ipsilateral MEPs obtained in healthy individuals and stroke patients have different characteristics and probably different origins. In the former, they are probably conveyed via corticoreticulospinal or corticopropriospinal pathways, whereas in the latter, early ipsilateral MEPs could originate in hyperexcitable premotor areas.