Dosage Considerations for Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Children: A Computational Modeling Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Kessler, Sudha Kilaru ^a   Minhas, Preet ^b   Woods, Adam J ^a,c   Rosen, Alyssa ^a   Gorman, Casey ^a   Bikson, Marom ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CEPHALOMETRY; CHILD; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCHOOL CHILD; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; CHILD; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 84884689863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076112     Document Type: Article

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