Multiple sclerosis fatigue relief by bilateral somatosensory cortex neuromodulation

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 261, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1552-1558

  Tecchio, Franca ^a,b   Cancelli, Andrea ^a,c   Cottone, Carlo ^a,d   Zito, Giancarlo ^a   Pasqualetti, Patrizio ^b,e   Ghazaryan, Anna ^a   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^b,c   Filippi, Maria Maddalena ^a  

^a FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^e IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cortical excitability; Multiple sclerosis (MS) fatigue; Primary somatosensory cortex (S1); Quality of life; transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTRODE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SHAM PROCEDURE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; DISABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84906098473     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-014-7377-9     Document Type: Article

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