Brain activity modification produced by a single radioelectric asymmetric brain stimulation pulse: A new tool for neuropsychiatric treatments. preliminary fMRI study

Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 649-654

  Rinaldi, Salvatore ^a,b   Fontani, Vania ^a   Castagna, Alessandro ^a  

^a Rinaldi Fontani Institute   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain modulation; Brain stimulation; fMRI; Neuropsychiatric treatments; REAC

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STIMULATION PULSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RADIOELECTRIC ASYMMETRIC BRAIN STIMULATION;

EID: 80955122623     PISSN: 11766328     EISSN: 11782021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/ndt.s26123     Document Type: Article

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