Establishing safety limits for transcranial direct current stimulation

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1033-1034

  Bikson, Marom ^a   Datta, Abhishek ^a   Elwassif, Maged ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TISSUE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EDITORIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; HUMAN; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SKIN INJURY; SKULL; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE INJURY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 67349152650     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.03.018     Document Type: Editorial

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