Modulating functional connectivity patterns and topological functional organization of the human brain with transcranial direct current stimulation

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1236-1249

  Polanía, Rafael ^a   Nitsche, Michael A ^a   Paulus, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; EEG; Graph; Synchronization; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; THEORETICAL STUDY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET;

EID: 79957514571     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21104     Document Type: Article

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