Dual-hemisphere tDCS facilitates greater improvements for healthy subjects' non-dominant hand compared to uni-hemisphere stimulation

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Vines, Bradley W ^a,b   Cerruti, Carlo ^a,c   Schlaug, Gottfried ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SYNAPSE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; HAND; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HAND; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 56549122431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-9-103     Document Type: Article

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