Preliminary evidence that anodal transcranial direct current stimulation enhances time to task failure of a sustained submaximal contraction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Williams, Petra S ^a,b   Hoffman, Richard L ^a   Clark, Brian C ^a,c  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW FLEXION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; RESPONSE TIME; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892563799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081418     Document Type: Article

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