Transcranial direct current stimulation enhances mu rhythm desynchronization during motor imagery that depends on handedness

Laterality

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 453-468

  Kasuga, Shoko ^a   Matsushika, Yayoi ^a   Kasashima Shindo, Yuko ^b   Kamatani, Daiki ^b   Fujiwara, Toshiyuki ^b   Liu, Meigen ^b   Ushiba, Junichi ^a,b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electroencephalogram; Event related desynchronization; Handedness; Motor cortex; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PERIODICITY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84928588875     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2014.998679     Document Type: Article

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