AUTHOR=Veldman Menno P. , Zijdewind Inge , Maffiuletti Nicola A. , Hortobágyi Tibor TITLE=Motor Skill Acquisition and Retention after Somatosensory Electrical Stimulation in Healthy Humans JOURNAL=Frontiers in Human Neuroscience VOLUME=10 YEAR=2016 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00115 DOI=10.3389/fnhum.2016.00115 ISSN=1662-5161 ABSTRACT=
Somatosensory electrical stimulation (SES) can increase motor performance, presumably through a modulation of neuronal excitability. Because the effects of SES can outlast the period of stimulation, we examined the possibility that SES can also enhance the retention of motor performance, motor memory consolidation, after 24 h (Day 2) and 7 days (Day 7), that such effects would be scaled by SES duration, and that such effects were mediated by changes in aspects of corticospinal excitability, short-interval intracortical inhibition (SICI), and intracortical facilitation (ICF). Healthy young adults (