Cumulative effects of anodal and priming cathodal tDCS on pegboard test performance and motor cortical excitability

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 287, Issue , 2015, Pages 27-33

  Christova, Monica ^a,b   Rafolt, Dietmar ^c   Gallasch, Eugen ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b FH JOANNEUM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Motor cortex; Neuroplasticity; Procedural memory; Skill learning; TDCS; TMS

Indexed keywords

ABDUCTOR POLLICIS BREVIS MUSCLE; ADULT; ANODAL TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FACILITATION; GROOVED PEGBOARD TEST; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRACORTICAL FACILITATION; INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROREHABILITATIVE SCIENCE; NEUROSCIENCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OFF LINE LEARNING; PRIMING CATHODAL TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURAL MEMORY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964239567     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.03.028     Document Type: Article

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