Lasting EEG/MEG aftereffects of rhythmic transcranial brain stimulation: Level of control over oscillatory network activity

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue DEC, 2015, Pages 1-17

  Veniero, Domenica ^a   Vossen, Alexandra ^b   Gross, Joachim ^a   Thut, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entrainment; Human brain oscillations; LTP LTP like plasticity; Offline aftereffects; Oscillatory transcranial direct current stimulation; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS); Transcranial alternating current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING CURRENT; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84954069276     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00477     Document Type: Review

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