Transcranial alternating current stimulation affects the BOLD signal in a frequency and task-dependent manner

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 94-121

  Cabral Calderin, Yuranny ^a,b   Anne Weinrich, Christiane ^a   Schmidt Samoa, Carsten ^a   Poland, Eva ^a   Dechent, Peter ^a   Bähr, Mathias ^a   Wilke, Melanie ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^c DFG Center for Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CNMPB)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation; fMRI; Oscillations; tACS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTOPARIETAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; VISION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPHYSICS; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84954383058     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23016     Document Type: Article

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