Transcranial stimulability of phosphenes by long lightning electromagnetic pulses
@article{Peer2010TranscranialSO, title={Transcranial stimulability of phosphenes by long lightning electromagnetic pulses}, author={J. Peer and A. Kendl}, journal={Physics Letters A}, year={2010}, volume={374}, pages={2932-2935} }
The electromagnetic pulses of rare long (order of seconds) repetitive lightning discharges near strike point (order of 100 m) are analyzed and compared to magnetic fields applied in standard clinical transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) practice. It is shown that the time-varying lightning magnetic fields and locally induced electric fields are in the same order of magnitude and frequency as those established in TMS experiments to study stimulated perception phenomena, like magnetophosphenes… Expand
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