Modulatory effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on laser-evoked potentials

Pain Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 122-132

  Csifcsak, Gabor ^a,b   Antal, Andrea ^a   Hillers, Ferdinand ^a   Levold, Maik ^a   Bachmann, Cornelius G ^a   Happe, Svenja ^a   Nitsche, Michael A ^a   Ellrich, Jens ^c   Paulus, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

LEP; Pain; Primary motor Cortex; tDCS

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEAT SENSATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER EVOKED POTENTIAL; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 59649129208     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2008.00508.x     Document Type: Article

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