Physiological and modeling evidence for focal transcranial electrical brain stimulation in humans: A basis for high-definition tDCS

NeuroImage

Volumn 74, Issue , 2013, Pages 266-275

  Edwards, Dylan ^a,b,c,d   Cortes, Mar ^a,b   Datta, Abhishek ^e   Minhas, Preet ^e   Wassermann, Eric M ^f   Bikson, Marom ^e  

^a BURKE MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e City University of New York   (United States)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electric fields; Human head model; Targeted stimulation; TDCS; TES; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE TWITCH; NERVE STIMULATOR; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84874961900     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.01.042     Document Type: Article

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