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The Use of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy as a Tool for the Measurement of Bi-hemispheric Transcranial Electric Stimulation Effects on Primary Motor Cortex Metabolism
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JoVE Journal Neuroscience
The Use of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy as a Tool for the Measurement of Bi-hemispheric Transcranial Electric Stimulation Effects on Primary Motor Cortex Metabolism
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13:56 min

November 19, 2014

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Chapters

  • 00:05Title
  • 02:25Placement of Electrodes
  • 04:05tDCS Test Outside the Scanner Room
  • 04:58tDCS Setup and MRI Scan Preparation
  • 06:42Pre-tDCS 1H-MRS Session
  • 09:53tDCS Procedure and Post-tDCS 1H-MRS Session
  • 11:39Results: Effects of Bilateral tDCS on Glx and GABA
  • 13:26Conclusion

Summary

Automatic Translation

This article aims to describe a basic protocol for combining transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) with proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H-MRS) measurements to investigate the effects of bilateral stimulation on primary motor cortex metabolism.

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