Phase Dependency of the Human Primary Motor Cortex and Cholinergic Inhibition Cancelation during Beta tACS

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3977-3990

  Guerra, Andrea ^a,b   Pogosyan, Alek ^b   Nowak, Magdalena ^b   Tan, Huiling ^b   Ferreri, Florinda ^a,c   Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo ^a   Brown, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

beta; phase; SAI; tACS; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CHOLINERGIC INHIBITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXCITABILITY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE STIMULATOR; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING MOTOR THRESHOLD; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INTERNEURON; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIAL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BETA RHYTHM; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84991383964     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw245     Document Type: Article

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