Repetitive tactile stimulation changes resting-state functional connectivity-implications for treatment of sensorimotor decline

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY 2012, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Freyer, Frank ^a,b,d   Reinacher, Matthias ^a,b   Nolte, Guido ^c   Dinse, Hubert R ^d   Ritter, Petra ^a,b,e,f  

^a BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^f HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

EEG; Functional connectivity; Mu rhythm; Ongoing activity; Plasticity; Resting state; Sensorimotor; Sensory stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MU RHYTHM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PASSIVE REPETITIVE SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84864087991     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00144     Document Type: Article

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