Methodological dimensions of transcranial brain stimulation with the electrical current in human

Basic and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 8-26

  Rostami, Maryam ^a,d   Golesorkhi, Mehrshad ^a,b,e   Ekhtiari, Hamed ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE STUDIES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Non Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS); Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS); Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS); Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (tES)

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IONTOPHORESIS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MIGRAINE; NEUROIMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT SAFETY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SEIZURE; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION SYSTEM; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84890026029     PISSN: 2008126X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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