Brain stimulation: Neuromodulation as a potential treatment for motor recovery following traumatic brain injury

E Clayton, SK Kinley-Cooper, RA Weber, DL Adkins - Brain research, 2016 - Elsevier
There is growing evidence that electrical and magnetic brain stimulation can improve motor
function and motor learning following brain damage. Rodent and primate studies have …

[HTML][HTML] Contribution of TMS and rTMS in the understanding of the pathophysiology and in the treatment of dystonia

P Lozeron, A Poujois, A Richard, S Masmoudi… - Frontiers in neural …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Dystonias represent a heterogeneous group of movement disorders responsible for
sustained muscle contraction, abnormal postures, and muscle twists. It can affect focal or …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunities for guided multichannel non-invasive transcranial current stimulation in poststroke rehabilitation

B Otal, A Dutta, Á Foerster, O Ripolles… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Stroke is a leading cause of serious long-term disability worldwide. Functional outcome
depends on stroke location, severity, and early intervention. Conventional rehabilitation …

Neural correlates of unihemispheric and bihemispheric motor cortex stimulation in healthy young adults

R Lindenberg, MM Sieg, M Meinzer, L Nachtigall… - Neuroimage, 2016 - Elsevier
Bihemispheric non-invasive motor cortex stimulation has shown promise for facilitating
motor learning and recovery after stroke. However, previous studies yielded mixed results …

Transcranial direct current stimulation in post stroke aphasia and primary progressive aphasia: Current knowledge and future clinical applications

R Sebastian, K Tsapkini, DC Tippett - NeuroRehabilitation, 2016 - content.iospress.com
BACKGROUND: The application of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in chronic
post stroke aphasia is documented in a substantial literature, and there is some new …

Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation enhances the effects of motor imagery training in a finger tapping task

A Saimpont, C Mercier, F Malouin… - European journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Motor imagery (MI) training and anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) applied
over the primary motor cortex can independently improve hand motor function. The main …

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) targeting left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex modulates task-induced acute pain in healthy volunteers

TY Mariano, M van't Wout, SL Garnaat… - Pain …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Objective. Current chronic pain treatments target nociception rather than affective “suffering”
and its associated functional and psychiatric comorbidities. The left dorsolateral prefrontal …

[HTML][HTML] Modulating human auditory processing by transcranial electrical stimulation

K Heimrath, M Fiene, KS Rufener… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) has become a valuable research tool for the
investigation of neurophysiological processes underlying human action and cognition. In …

Considering the influence of stimulation parameters on the effect of conventional and high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation

WT To, J Hart, D De Ridder… - Expert review of medical …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Recently, techniques to non-invasively modulate specific brain areas gained popularity in
the form of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and high-definition transcranial …

Monitoring transcranial direct current stimulation induced changes in cortical excitability during the serial reaction time task

GG Ambrus, L Chaieb, R Stilling, H Rothkegel… - Neuroscience …, 2016 - Elsevier
The measurement of the motor evoked potential (MEP) amplitudes using single pulse
transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a common method to observe changes in motor …