State-dependent effects of transcranial oscillatory currents on the motor system: What you think matters

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 17483-17489

  Feurra, Matteo ^a   Pasqualetti, Patrizio ^b,c   Bianco, Giovanni ^a   Santarnecchi, Emiliano ^a   Rossi, Alessandro ^a   Rossi, Simone ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^c Casa di Cura 'San RaffaeleCassino' Tosinvest   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; GAMMA RHYTHM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN WAVES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; THINKING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84886665142     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1414-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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