Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation of the primary sensory cortex on somatosensory perception

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 253-260

  Grundmann, Lisa ^a,b   Rolke, Roman ^c   Nitsche, Michael A ^a   Pavlakovic, Goran ^a   Happe, Svenja ^a,d   Treede, Rolf Detlef ^e   Paulus, Walter ^a   Bachmann, Cornelius G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Academic Teaching Hospital   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d KLINIKUM BREMEN OST   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

QST; quantitative sensory testing; somatosensory cortex; transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBIT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; SENSORY CORTEX; SHAM PROCEDURE; SKIN; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WARMING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TEMPERATURE; THERMOSENSING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054970512     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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