Close to threshold transcranial electrical stimulation preferentially activates inhibitory networks before switching to excitation with higher intensities

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 505-511

  Moliadze, Vera ^a   Atalay, Deniz ^b   Antal, Andrea ^b   Paulus, Walter ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

High frequency oscillation; Plasticity; Transcranial alternating current stimulation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Transcranial random noise stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATING CURRENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHAM PROCEDURE; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84867571161     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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