Changes in cortical plasticity across the lifespan

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2011, Pages 1-8

  Freitas, Catarina ^a   Perez, Jennifer ^a   Knobel, Mark ^a   Tormos, Jose M ^b   Oberman, Lindsay ^a   Eldaief, Mark ^a   Bashir, Shahid ^a   Vernet, Marine ^a   Peña Gómez, Cleofé ^c   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a,b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University Institute affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Continuous theta burst stimulation; Cortical plasticity; Long term depression; Motor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055021340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2011.00005     Document Type: Article

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