Improving Cycling Performance: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Increases Time to Exhaustion in Cycling

• Marcelo Vitor-Costa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marcelo Vitor-Costa, Nilo Massaru Okuno, Henrique Bortolotti, Leandro Ricardo Altimari

  * E-mail: marcelovitordacosta@gmail.com.

  Affiliations Universidade Estadual de Londrina. Group of Study and Research in Neuromuscular System and Exercise. Londrina, PR, Brazil, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa. Study Group of Physiological Responses and Adaptations to Exercise. Ponta Grossa, PR, Brazil

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• Nilo Massaru Okuno ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marcelo Vitor-Costa, Nilo Massaru Okuno, Henrique Bortolotti, Leandro Ricardo Altimari

  Affiliation Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa. Study Group of Physiological Responses and Adaptations to Exercise. Ponta Grossa, PR, Brazil

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• Henrique Bortolotti ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marcelo Vitor-Costa, Nilo Massaru Okuno, Henrique Bortolotti, Leandro Ricardo Altimari

  Affiliations Universidade Estadual de Londrina. Group of Study and Research in Neuromuscular System and Exercise. Londrina, PR, Brazil, Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa. Study Group of Physiological Responses and Adaptations to Exercise. Ponta Grossa, PR, Brazil

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• Maurizio Bertollo ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Behavioral Imaging and Neural Dynamics Center, Department of Medicine and Aging Sciences, University G. d’Annunzio, Chieti, Italy

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• Paulo Sergio Boggio ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory and Developmental Disorders Program, Center for Health and Biological Sciences, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Sao Paulo, Brazil

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• Felipe Fregni ,

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Spaulding Neuromodulation Center, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Leandro Ricardo Altimari

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marcelo Vitor-Costa, Nilo Massaru Okuno, Henrique Bortolotti, Leandro Ricardo Altimari

  Affiliation Universidade Estadual de Londrina. Group of Study and Research in Neuromuscular System and Exercise. Londrina, PR, Brazil

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