Transcranial direct current stimulation applied over the somatosensory cortex - Differential effect on low and high frequency SEPs

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2221-2227

  Dieckhöfer, Anne ^a   Waberski, Till Dino ^a   Nitsche, Michael ^b   Paulus, Walter ^b   Buchner, Helmut ^c   Gobbelé, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Knappschaftskrankenhaus Recklinghausen   (Germany)

Author keywords

600 Hz bursts; Cortical excitability; Dipole source analysis; High frequency oscillations (HFOs); Somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs); Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOREHEAD; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GENERATOR; HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NEURAL INHIBITION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 33748451644     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.07.136     Document Type: Article

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