5 kHz transcranial alternating current stimulation: Lack of cortical excitability changes when grouped in a theta burst pattern

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Kunz, Patrik ^a   Antal, Andrea ^a   Hewitt, Manuel ^a   Neef, Andreas ^b   Opitz, Alexander ^c   Paulus, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^c NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

High frequency stimulation; High intensity; Motor cortex; Safety; Theta burst stimulation; Transcranial alternating current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTRICAL THETA BURST STIMULATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 85010915132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00683     Document Type: Article

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