Down-regulation of negative emotional processing by transcranial direct current stimulation: Effects of personality characteristics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Peña Gómez, Cleofé ^a   Vidal Piñeiro, Dídac ^a   Clemente, Immaculada C ^a   Pascual Leone, Álvaro ^b,c   Bartrés Faz, David ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c University Institute affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXTRAVERSION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTROVERSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; NEUROIMAGING; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOWN-REGULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960943893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022812     Document Type: Article

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