BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Pages 42-50 , January 2010

Focal and bidirectional modulation of lower limb motor cortex using anodal transcranial direct current stimulation

  • Sangeetha Madhavan

      Affiliations

    • Sensory Motor Performance Program, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to: Sangeetha Madhavan, PT, PhD, Sensory Motor Performance Program, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, 345 E Superior St, Suite 1406, Chicago, IL 60611.
    • ,
  • James W. Stinear

      Affiliations

    • Sensory Motor Performance Program, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois

Received 17 April 2009 ,Revised 11 June 2009 ,Accepted 11 June 2009.

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 Support was provided from National Institutes of Health grants 5K01HD056216 (J.W.S.), 1R21HD059287 (J.W.S.), and the Davee Foundation.

PII: S1935-861X(09)00059-X

doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2009.06.005

BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation
Volume 3, Issue 1 , Pages 42-50 , January 2010

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