TDCS increases cortical excitability: Direct evidence from TMS-EEG

Cortex

Volumn 58, Issue , 2014, Pages 99-111

  Romero Lauro, Leonor J ^a   Rosanova, Mario ^b,c   Mattavelli, Giulia ^a   Convento, Silvia ^a   Pisoni, Alberto ^a   Opitz, Alexander ^d   Bolognini, Nadia ^a,e   Vallar, Giuseppe ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c Fondazione Europea di Ricerca Biomedica   (Italy)

^d Department of Clinical Neurophysiology ^*  (Germany)

^e ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Posterior parietal cortex; TDCS; TMS EEG

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903775503     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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