Opposite effects of weak transcranial direct current stimulation on different phases of short interval intracortical inhibition (SICI)

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 321-331

  Cengiz, Bülent ^a,b   Murase, Nagako ^a   Rothwell, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Short interval intracortical inhibition; Threshold tracking; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE MEMBRANE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84877054348     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3369-0     Document Type: Article

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