Brain stimulation in psychiatry and its effects on cognition

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 267-275

  Hoy, Kate E ^a   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CAMPHOR; CITALOPRAM; PENTETRAZOLE;

AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; EPIDURAL CORTICAL STIMULATION; EPILEPSY; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAGNETIC SEIZURE THERAPY; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PAIN; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRY; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

COGNITION DISORDERS; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77952240600     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2010.30     Document Type: Review

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