Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over supplementary motor area (SMA) but not pre-SMA promotes short-term visuomotor learning

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 101-107

  Vollmann, Henning ^a,b   Conde, Virginia ^a   Sewerin, Sebastian ^a   Taubert, Marco ^a   Sehm, Bernhard ^a   Witte, Otto W ^b   Villringer, Arno ^a   Ragert, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Pre SMA; Supplementary motor area (SMA); Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); Visuomotor learning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PINCH STRENGTH; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84875225558     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2012.03.018     Document Type: Article

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