Best of both worlds: Promise of combining brain stimulation and brain connectome

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JULY, 2014, Pages

  Luft, Caroline Di Bernardi ^a   Pereda, Ernesto ^b   Banissy, Michael J ^a   Bhattacharya, Joydeep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Connectome; Functional connectivity; Graph theory; Structural connectivity; tACS; tCS; tDCS; tRNS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905181855     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00132     Document Type: Review

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