Lack of clinically detectable acute changes on autonomic or thermoregulatory functions in healthy subjects after transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 196-200

  Raimundo, Ronney Jorge S ^a,b   Uribe, Carlos E ^b   Brasil Neto, Joaquim P ^b  

^a PAULISTA UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

autonomic nervous system; cortisol; safety; tDCS; thermoregulation; transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BREATHING RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EARDRUM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THERMOMETRY; THERMOREGULATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BRAIN; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84864283908     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2011.03.009     Document Type: Article

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