Transcranial direct current stimulation modulates the spinal plasticity induced with patterned electrical stimulation

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1834-1837

  Fujiwara, Toshiyuki ^a   Tsuji, Tetsuya ^a   Honaga, Kaoru ^a   Hase, Kimitaka ^a   Ushiba, Junichi ^b   Liu, Meigen ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

H reflex; Motor cortex; Reciprocal inhibition; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERNED SENSORY ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPROCAL INHIBITION; TIBIAL NERVE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79960892145     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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