Addiction

Handbook of Clinical Neurology

Volumn 116, Issue , 2013, Pages 613-630

  Naim Feil, Jodie ^a,b   Zangen, Abraham ^c  

^a Australia   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Addiction; Addiction related research; Addiction related treatment; Cortical excitability; Transcranial direct current stimulation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADDICTION-RELATED RESEARCH; ADDICTION-RELATED TREATMENT; ARTICLE; CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADDICTION; ADDICTION-RELATED RESEARCH; ADDICTION-RELATED TREATMENT; CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84885136797     PISSN: 00729752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53497-2.00049-8     Document Type: Chapter

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