Efficacy of cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation in drug-resistant epilepsy: A proof of principle

2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 530-533

  Assenza, Giovanni ^a   Campana, Chiara ^a   Formica, Domenico ^a   Schena, Emiliano ^a   Taffoni, Fabrizio ^a   Di Pino, Giovanni ^a   Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRIC LINES; PATIENT TREATMENT;

FOCAL EPILEPSY; NEURAL MODULATION; OBSERVATION PERIOD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; SHORT TERM; TRANSCRANIAL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATIONS;

NEUROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; DRUG RESISTANT EPILEPSY; ELECTRODE; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; DRUG RESISTANT EPILEPSY; ELECTRODES; EPILEPSIES, PARTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84921295760     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2014.6943645     Document Type: Conference Paper

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