Increased short latency afferent inhibition after anodal transcranial direct current stimulation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 498, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 167-170

  Scelzo, Emma ^a   Giannicola, Gaia ^a   Rosa, Manuela ^a   Ciocca, Matteo ^a   Ardolino, Gianluca ^a   Cogiamanian, Filippo ^a   Ferrucci, Roberta ^a,b   Fumagalli, Manuela ^a,b   Mameli, Francesca ^a   Barbieri, Sergio ^a   Priori, Alberto ^a,b  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cholinergic circuits; Interneuronal circuits; Motor cortex; Short latency afferent inhibition; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNEURON; MEDIAN NERVE; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT LATENCY AFFERENT INHIBITION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WRIST;

ADULT; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; ELECTRODES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL CONDUCTION; REACTION TIME; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80955177112     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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