Combined motor point associative stimulation (MPAS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) improves plateaued manual dexterity performance

• Published in: Neuroscience letters Vol. 633; pp. 134 - 140
• Main Authors: Hoseini, Najmeh, Munoz-Rubke, Felipe, Wan, Hsuan-Yu, Block, Hannah J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ireland Elsevier B.V 28.10.2016
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Electric Stimulation; Female; Hand - physiology; Hand Strength; Humans; Male; Manual dexterity; Motor cortex; Movement; Muscle, Skeletal - physiology; Sensorimotor Cortex - physiology; Task Performance and Analysis; tDCS; Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation; Young Adult; Manual dexterity; tDCS; Transcranial direct current stimulation; Motor cortex

•We asked if combining central and peripheral stimulation could improve hand dexterity without motor practice.•Subjects were healthy young adults and had already reached plateau on a manual dexterity task.•Combining anodal tDCS with MPAS significantly improved manual dexterity beyond the ceiling of...