Focal and bidirectional modulation of lower limb motor cortex using anodal transcranial direct current stimulation

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-50

  Madhavan, Sangeetha ^a   Stinear, James W ^a,b  

^a REHABILITATION INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cortical excitability; lower limb; transcranial direct current stimulation; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECT CURRENT; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE ISOTONIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UPREGULATION; VASTUS LATERALIS MUSCLE; ELECTRODE; INNERVATION; LEG; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149141688     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2009.06.005     Document Type: Article

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