Inter- and intra-individual variability in response to transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) at varying current intensities

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1130-1137

  Chew, Taariq ^a   Ho, Kerrie Anne ^a   Loo, Colleen K ^a,b  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Current intensity; Inter individual variability; Intra individual variability; Motor cortex; Reliability; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLAR STIMULATOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTER INDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY; INTRA INDIVIDUAL VARIABILITY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIABILITY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84955682945     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2015.07.031     Document Type: Article

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