Non-invasive electrical brain stimulation induces vision restoration in patients with visual pathway damage

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1041-1043

  Gall, Carolin ^a   Antal, Andrea ^b   Sabel, Bernhard A ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP;

BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; HUMAN; LETTER; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETINA DISEASE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCORNEAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; TRANSORBITAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RETINAL DISEASES;

EID: 84877128248     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-012-2084-7     Document Type: Letter

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