The selective influence of rhythmic cortical versus cerebellar transcranial stimulation on human physiological tremor

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 7501-7508

  Mehta, Arpan R ^a   Brittain, John Stuart ^a   Brown, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accelerometry; Coherence; Entrainment; Phase synchronization index; Physiological tremor; Transcranial alternating current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREMOR;

ACCELEROMETRY; COHERENCE; ENTRAINMENT; PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION INDEX; PHYSIOLOGICAL TREMOR; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; CEREBELLUM; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PERIODICITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84901466053     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0510-14.2014     Document Type: Article

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