Transcranial stimulation and cognition

Handbook of Clinical Neurology

Volumn 116, Issue , 2013, Pages 739-750

  Miniussi, Carlo ^a,b   Ruzzoli, Manuela ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Behavior; Cognitive neuroscience; Entrainment; Neural noise; NIBS and cognition; Pedestal effect; RTMS; State dependency; Stochastic resonance; TDCS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE; ENTRAINMENT; HUMAN; NEURAL NOISE; NIBS AND COGNITION; PEDESTAL EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; RTMS; STATE DEPENDENCY; STOCHASTIC RESONANCE; TDCS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

BEHAVIOR; COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE; ENTRAINMENT; NEURAL NOISE; NIBS AND COGNITION; PEDESTAL EFFECT; RTMS; STATE DEPENDENCY; STOCHASTIC RESONANCE; TDCS;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; HUMANS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84885137369     PISSN: 00729752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53497-2.00056-5     Document Type: Chapter

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