Enhanced motor learning with bilateral transcranial direct current stimulation: Impact of polarity or current flow direction?

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2119-2126

  Naros, Georgios ^a   Geyer, Marc ^a   Koch, Susanne ^a   Mayr, Lena ^a   Ellinger, Tabea ^a   Grimm, Florian ^a   Gharabaghi, Alireza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Current direction; Electrode montage; Hemispheric interaction; Polarity; Proximal upper limb muscles; Robotic rehabilitation; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOSKELETON; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROMUSCULAR STIMULATOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84959885347     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2015.12.020     Document Type: Article

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