Modulating conscious movement intention by noninvasive brain stimulation and the underlying neural mechanisms

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 7239-7255

  Douglas, Zachary H ^a,b   Maniscalco, Brian ^a   Hallett, Mark ^a   Wassermann, Eric M ^a   He, Biyu J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

EEG; Movement intention; Slow cortical potential; Spontaneous activity; tDCS; Volition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGULAR GYRUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEURAL MECHANISM; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929379416     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4894-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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