Modulating cortico-striatal and thalamo-cortical functional connectivity with transcranial direct current stimulation

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2499-2508

  Polanía, Rafael ^a   Paulus, Walter ^a   Nitsche, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

FMRI; Functional connectivity; Plasticity; Resting; Stimulation; Striatum; Subcortical; TDCS; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICOSTRIATAL CIRCUIT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SEED FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY ANALYSIS; SHAM PROCEDURE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; THALAMUS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863010750     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21380     Document Type: Article

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