Impairments of motor-cortex responses to unilateral and bilateral direct current stimulation in schizophrenia

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Hasan, Alkomiet ^a   Bergener, Theresa ^b   Nitsche, Michael A ^b   Strube, Wolfgang ^a   Bunse, Tilmann ^a   Falkai, Peter ^a   Wobrock, Thomas ^b,c  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Darmstadt Dieburg Clinics   (Germany)

Author keywords

Connectivity; LTD; LTP; Plasticity; Schizophrenia; tDCS

Indexed keywords

BIPERIDEN; CHLORPROMAZINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILATERAL TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATOR; PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; UNILATERAL TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84885361787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00121     Document Type: Article

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