Modulation of motor performance and motor learning by transcranial direct current stimulation

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 590-596

  Reis, Janine ^a   Fritsch, Brita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

motor learning; neurorehabilitation; stroke; transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ABDUCTION; ADAPTATION; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; ELECTRODE; EPILEPTOGENESIS; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; REACTION TIME; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SLEEP; STROKE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STROKE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 81855175363     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: 14736551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WCO.0b013e32834c3db0     Document Type: Review

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