Neuromodulation and Executive Control of Human Movements
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2020) | Viewed by 16713
Special Issue Editor
Interests: non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS); cognition; balance; movement control; pain; transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); neuroplasticity; corticospinal excitability; electromyography (EMG)
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Dear Colleagues,
The executive control of a task or a movement can be defined as the ability of the brain to coordinate its multiple sites to accomplish this task or movement. This may involve cognitive, sensory and motor cortices in the frontal, parietal and temporal lobes and subcortical structures in the basal ganglia, thalamus, cerebellum, brainstem and spinal cord. Neuromodulation of these neural circuits, whether electrical or magnetic, can affect this control by changing the activity of populations of neurons by releasing inhibitory or excitatory transmitters.
We invite authors to contribute to this Special issue of Brain Sciences, which is dedicated to the ways that modulation of different parts of the brain may affect the executive control of human movements, the mechanisms behind these effects, and the various modes of neuromodulatory techniques for enhancement of control as well as the new developments that are taking place in the field.
Dr. Shapour Jaberzadeh
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- executive control of movements
- cognitive control of movements
- sensori-motor control of movement
- Balance control
- neuromodulation
- Learning
- non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS)
- transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
- repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
- transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
- transcranial alternative current stimulation (tACS)
- transcranial pulsed current stimulation (tPCS)
- cerebellar tDCS
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