Increasing Human Brain Excitability by Transcranial High-Frequency Random Noise Stimulation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 52, 2008, Pages 14147-14155

  Terney, Daniella ^a   Chaieb, Leila ^a   Moliadze, Vera ^a   Antal, Andrea ^a   Paulus, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human; Neuromodulation; Primary motor cortex (M1); Serial reaction time task (SRTT); Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); Transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS)

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL RANDOM NOISE STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149385604     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4248-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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