Non-synaptic mechanisms underlie the after-effects of cathodal transcutaneous direct current stimulation of the human brain

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 568, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 653-663

  Ardolino, G ^a   Bossi, B ^a   Barbieri, S ^a   Priori, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; DIRECT CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROLYSIS; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IONIC STRENGTH; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NERVE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; ULNAR NERVE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN CELL; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; TRANSCUTANEOUS DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 27644486550     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.088310     Document Type: Article

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