Therapeutic effects of non-invasive brain stimulation with direct currents (tDCS) in neuropsychiatric diseases

NeuroImage

Volumn 85, Issue , 2014, Pages 948-960

  Kuo, Min Fang ^a   Paulus, Walter ^a   Nitsche, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depression; Neuroplasticity; Non invasive brain stimulation; Pain; Therapy; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSERINE; FLUOXETINE; PLACEBO;

ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY DISORDER; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MENTAL DISEASE; MIGRAINE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROMODULATION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TINNITUS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

AD; ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DLPFC; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIO-PANCREATICOGRAPHY; ERCP; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; LTD; LTP; NEUROPLASTICITY; NIBS; NON-INVASIVE BRAIN STIMULATION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OCD; PAIN; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; RTMS; TDCS; TEMPOROPARIETAL CORTEX; THERAPY; TPC; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAIN MANAGEMENT; TINNITUS;

EID: 84889650900     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.05.117     Document Type: Review

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