Safety criteria for transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in humans [1] (multiple letters)

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2220-2222

  Nitsche, Michael A ^a   Liebetanz, David ^a   Lang, Nicolas ^a   Antal, Andrea ^a   Tergau, Frithjof ^a   Paulus, Walter ^a   Priori, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN TISSUE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HEART NERVE; HUMAN; LETTER; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE STIMULATION; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 0142121840     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(03)00235-9     Document Type: Letter

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