Local and remote effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on the electrical activity of the motor cortical network

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2220-2232

  Notturno, Francesca ^a   Marzetti, Laura ^a   Pizzella, Vittorio ^a   Uncini, Antonino ^a   Zappasodi, Filippo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Event Related Desynchronization Synchronization; Functional connectivity; High density EEG; Imaginary part of coherence; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84898037186     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22322     Document Type: Article

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