Partially non-linear stimulation intensity-dependent effects of direct current stimulation on motor cortex excitability in humans

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 591, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1987-2000

  Batsikadze, G ^a   Moliadze, V ^a,b   Paulus, W ^a   Kuo, M F ^a   Nitsche, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SILENT PERIOD; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; I WAVE FACILITATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT LATENCY INTRACORTICAL FACILITATION; SHORT LATENCY INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

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

EID: 84875677987     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.249730     Document Type: Article

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