Primary Sensory and Motor Cortex Excitability Are Co-Modulated in Response to Peripheral Electrical Nerve Stimulation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Schabrun, Siobhan M ^a   Ridding, Michael C ^b   Galea, Mary P ^c   Hodges, Paul W ^a   Chipchase, Lucinda S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE TETANIC CONTRACTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84870816877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051298     Document Type: Article

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