Anodal tDCS increases corticospinal output and projection strength in multiple sclerosis

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 554, Issue , 2013, Pages 151-155

  Cuypers, Koen ^a,b   Leenus, Daphnie J F ^a   Van Wijmeersch, Bart ^a,c   Thijs, Herbert ^a,d   Levin, Oron ^b   Swinnen, Stephan P ^b   Meesen, Raf L J ^a,b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Revalidatie and MS Centrum   (Belgium)

^d KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Corticospinal excitability; Multiple sclerosis; Recruitment curve; TDCS; TMS

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANODAL TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORTICOSPINAL EXCITABILITY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE PROJECTION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

CORTICOSPINAL EXCITABILITY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; RECRUITMENT CURVE; TDCS; TMS;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84884946690     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.09.004     Document Type: Article

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