Transcranial direct current stimulation over the motor association cortex induces plastic changes in ipsilateral primary motor and somatosensory cortices

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 777-783

  Kirimoto, Hikari ^a   Ogata, Katsuya ^b   Onishi, Hideaki ^a   Oyama, Mineo ^a   Goto, Yoshinobu ^c   Tobimatsu, Shozo ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Motor evoked potentials; Plasticity; Premotor cortex; Somatosensory evoked potentials; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952315239     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.09.025     Document Type: Article

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