Direct-current-dependent shift of theta-burst-induced plasticity in the human motor cortex

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 15-23

  Hasan, Alkomiet ^a,b   Hamada, Masashi ^a   Nitsche, Michael A ^b   Ruge, Diane ^a   Galea, Joseph M ^a   Wobrock, Thomas ^b   Rothwell, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Long term depression; Long term potentiation; Motor cortex plasticity; Plasticity regulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENDRITE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84859099379     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2968-5     Document Type: Article

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