Daily transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) leads to greater increases in cortical excitability than second daily transcranial direct current stimulation

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 208-213

  Alonzo, Angelo ^a   Brassil, Joseph ^a   Taylor, Janet L ^a   Martin, Donel ^a   Loo, Colleen K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

cortical excitability; daily; motor cortex; stimulation parameters; transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; RADIATION DOSAGE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052467337     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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