Spaced Noninvasive Brain Stimulation: Prospects for Inducing Long-Lasting Human Cortical Plasticity

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 714-721

  Goldsworthy, Mitchell R ^a   Pitcher, Julia B ^a   Ridding, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

learning; long term depression; long term potentiation; memory; neuroplasticity; NIBS; transcranial direct current stimulation; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REPEAT PROCEDURE; SYNAPTIC EFFICACY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; MEMORY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84940103210     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968314562649     Document Type: Article

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