Perception of comfort during active and sham transcranial direct current stimulation: A double blind study

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 946-951

  Russo, Riccardo ^a   Wallace, Denise ^a   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^b   Cooper, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Double blind; Subjective symptoms; tDCS stimulation; Visual analog comfort scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURNING SENSATION; COMFORT; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTRODE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SCRATCHING; SHAM PROCEDURE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

DOUBLE-BLIND; SUBJECTIVE SYMPTOMS; TDCS STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG COMFORT SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SENSATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84887997617     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2013.05.009     Document Type: Article

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