On the difficulties of separating retinal from cortical origins of phosphenes when using transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS)

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 987-991

  Paulus, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; HUMANS; PHOSPHENES; RETINA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77952743382     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.01.029     Document Type: Editorial

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