Ultrasonic neuromodulation by brain stimulation with transcranial ultrasound

Nature Protocols

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1453-1470

  Tufail, Yusuf ^a   Yoshihiro, Anna ^a   Pati, Sandipan ^b   Li, Monica M ^a   Tyler, William J ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL ULTRASOUND; ULTRASONIC NEUROMODULATION; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 80052404772     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2011.371     Document Type: Article

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