The effect of 10 Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) on corticomuscular coherence

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue AUG, 2013, Pages

  Wach, Claudia ^a,b   Krause, Vanessa ^a   Moliadze, Vera ^c   Paulus, Walter ^d   Schnitzler, Alfons ^a,b   Pollok, Bettina ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corticomuscular coherence (CMC); Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Motor control; Primary motor cortex (M1); Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS)

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOMUSCULAR COHERENCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HIGH GAMMA BAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW GAMMA BAND; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROMAGNETIC BRAIN ACTIVITY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RELATIVE POWER AMPLITUDE; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84884694915     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00511     Document Type: Article

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