Stuart Maitland

Nov 4, 2024 | jnnp.bmj.com | Mark Baker |Stuart Maitland

ALS EVOKED POTENTIALS MAGNETIC STIMULATION MOTOR NEURON DISEASE With its description in 1985 by Barker and colleagues, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for the first time offered a painless electrophysiological technique for assessing corticospinal function and upper motor neuron disease (UMND) in patients—a breakthrough at the time; while the first clinically useful full-body MRI scan had been demonstrated by Mallard’s team at Aberdeen in 1980, the resolution of spinal cord images was...