Endogenous and exogenous electric fields as modifiers of brain activity: Rational design of noninvasive brain stimulation with transcranial alternating current stimulation

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 93-102

  Fröhlich, Flavio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feedback electric field; Magnetic resonance imaging; Neuronal network; Transcranial alternating current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING CURRENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL DISEASE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; OSCILLATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WAVEFORM; ANIMAL; BRAIN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84898848137     PISSN: 12948322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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