Transcranial direct current stimulation: Challenges, opportunities, and impact on psychiatry and neurorehabilitation

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2013, Pages

  Brunoni, Andre R ^a   Boggio, Paulo Sergio ^b   Ferrucci, Roberta ^c,d   Priori, Alberto ^c,d   Fregni, Felipe ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; EDITORIAL; ELECTRODE; EMOTION; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PSYCHIATRY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84877668840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00019     Document Type: Editorial

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