Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation over the human motor cortex on corticospinal and transcallosal excitability

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 156, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 439-443

  Lang, N ^a,b   Nitsche, M A ^b   Paulus, W ^b   Rothwell, J C ^a   Lemon, R N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Plasticity; Transcallosal inhibition; Transcranial direct current stimulation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIRECT CURRENT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNEURON; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 3042660256     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1800-2     Document Type: Article

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