Modulating neuronal excitability in the motor cortex with tDCS shows moderate hemispheric asymmetry due to subjects' handedness: A pilot study

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 191-198

  Schade, Sebastian ^a   Moliadze, Vera ^b   Paulus, Walter ^a   Antal, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (EHI); handedness; Hemispheric asymmetry; motor evoked potentials (MEPs); motor thresholds (MTs); transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PILOT PROJECTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863005679     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2012-110175     Document Type: Article

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