Safety of 5 kHz tACS

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 92-96

  Chaieb, Leila ^a,b   Antal, Andrea ^a   Pisoni, Alberto ^a,c   Saiote, Catarina ^a   Opitz, Alexander ^a   Ambrus, Géza Gergely ^a,d   Focke, Niels ^a   Paulus, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternating current stimulation; Human; M1; Side effects

Indexed keywords

NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE;

ADULT; ALTERNATING CURRENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KERNEL METHOD; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATOR; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; YOUNG ADULT;

ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; HUMAN; M1; SIDE EFFECTS;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PILOT PROJECTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891836662     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2013.08.004     Document Type: Article

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