Stimulation intensities of transcranial direct current stimulation have to be adjusted in children and adolescents

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 126, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1392-1399

  Moliadze, Vera ^a,b   Schmanke, Till ^a   Andreas, Saskia ^a   Lyzhko, Ekaterina ^a   Freitag, Christine M ^a   Siniatchkin, Michael ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Child; Cortical excitability; MEP; TDCS; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRODE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; ELECTRODES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84922471501     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.10.142     Document Type: Article

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