Methods to focalize noninvasive electrical brain stimulation: Principles and future clinical development for the treatment of pain

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 465-467

  Cano, Thais ^a   Morales Quezada, Jorge Leon ^a   Bikson, Marom ^b   Fregni, Felipe ^a  

^a and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^b City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

brain mapping; clinical practice; electrical stimulation; electrical stimulation therapy; neuronal plasticity; pain; transcranial direct current stimulation; transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITIVE THERAPY; ELECTRODE; HUMAN; MOOD DISORDER; MOTOR CORTEX; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONINVASIVE BRAIN STIMULATION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SENSATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

BRAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAIN MANAGEMENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84876889240     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.13.41     Document Type: Review

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