Cortico-muscular coupling and motor performance are modulated by 20 Hz transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) in Parkinson's disease

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Krause, Vanessa ^a   Wach, Claudia ^a,b   Südmeyer, Martin ^a,b   Ferrea, Stefano ^a,b   Schnitzler, Alfons ^a,b   Pollok, Bettina ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortico muscular coupling (CMC); Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Motor control; Parkinson's disease; Primary motor cortex; Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS)

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; LEVODOPA; MONOAMINE OXIDASE B INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; CORTICOMUSCULAR COUPLING; DIADOCHOKINESIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FINGER; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SHAM PROCEDURE; SYMPTOM; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84893005360     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00928     Document Type: Article

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