Lithium: A switch from LTD- to LTP-like plasticity in human cortex

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 274-279

  Voytovych, Hanna ^a   Kriváneková, Lucia ^a   Ziemann, Ulf ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lithium; Long term depression; Long term potentiation; Motor cortex; Paired associative stimulation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; LITHIUM ACETATE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIARRHEA; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861970817     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: 18737064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2012.03.023     Document Type: Article

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