The role of contact media at the skin-electrode interface during transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 762-764

  Palm, Ulrich ^a   Feichtner, Katrina B ^a,b   Hasan, Alkomiet ^a   Gauglitz, Gerd ^b   Langguth, Berthold ^c   Nitsche, Michael A ^d   Keeser, Daniel ^a   Padberg, Frank ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SKIN CREAM; TAP WATER;

ADULT; COMFORT RATING QUESTIONNAIRE; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LETTER; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN ELASTICITY METER; SKIN ELECTRODE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRICAL NERVE STIMULATOR; VISCOELASTICITY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICES; ELECTRODE; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SKIN; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908069475     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2014.06.006     Document Type: Letter

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