Systematic assessment of duration and intensity of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation on primary motor cortex excitability

• Published in: The European journal of neuroscience Vol. 44; no. 5; pp. 2184 - 2190
• Main Authors: Tremblay, Sara, Larochelle-Brunet, Félix, Lafleur, Louis-Philippe, El Mouderrib, Sofia, Lepage, Jean-François, Théoret, Hugo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: France Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2016
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis of Variance; Evoked Potentials, Motor; Female; Humans; inter-subject variability; Male; Motor Cortex - physiology; motor evoked potential variability; primary motor cortex; Pyramidal Tracts - physiology; transcranial direct current stimulation; Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation - adverse effects; Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation - methods; Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation - standards; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; inter-subject variability; motor evoked potential variability; transcranial direct current stimulation; primary motor cortex

Since the initial demonstration of linear effects of stimulation duration and intensity on the strength of after‐effects associated with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), few studies have systematically assessed how varying these parameters modulates corticospinal excitability. Therefo...