EEG mean frequency changes in healthy subjects during prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1367-1375

  Accornero, Neri ^a   Capozza, Marco ^a   Pieroni, Laura ^a   Pro, Stefano ^a   Davì, Leonardo ^a   Mecarelli, Oriano ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain rate; Brain stimulation; EEG; Prefrontal areas; TDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DIRECT CURRENT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PILOT STUDY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84907247057     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00088.2014     Document Type: Article

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