Impact of transcranial direct current stimulation on fatigue in multiple sclerosis

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 423-436

  Saiote, Catarina ^a   Goldschmidt, Thomas ^a,b   Timäus, Charles ^a   Steenwijk, Martijn D ^b   Opitz, Alexander ^a   Antal, Andrea ^a   Paulus, Walter ^a   Nitsche, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

fatigue; lesion load; MRI; Multiple sclerosis; tDCS

Indexed keywords

BETA INTERFERON; GLATIRAMER; NATALIZUMAB; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FATIGUE; FATIGUE IMPACT SCALE; FATIGUE SEVERITY SCALE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HAMILTON ANXIETY SCALE; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE STIMULATOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESEARCH; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; DEPRESSION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84902243904     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-130372     Document Type: Article

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