TDCS increases cortical excitability: Direct evidence from TMS-EEG

Cortex

Volumn 74, Issue , 2016, Pages 320-322

  Bailey, Neil W ^a   Thomson, Richard H ^a   Hoy, Kate E ^a   Hernandez Pavon, Julio C ^b   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^a  

^a Australia   (Australia)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXCITABILITY; MOTOR SYSTEM; NOTE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84956591382     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.10.022     Document Type: Note

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