Montage matters: The influence of transcranial alternating current stimulation on human physiological tremor

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 260-268

  Mehta, Arpan R ^a   Pogosyan, Alek ^a   Brown, Peter ^a   Brittain, John Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Current density modeling; Electrode montage; Entrainment; Phosphene; Photic stimulation; Physiological tremor; Transcranial alternating current stimulation; Transcranial electrical stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; ALTERNATING CURRENT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRODE MONTAGE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; NEUROLOGICAL AND SENSORIAL PROCEDURES; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHOTOSTIMULATOR; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHAM PROCEDURE; SINUSOIDAL WAVEFORM; TIME; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION SYSTEM; TREMOR; VISION; WAVEFORM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHOSPHENES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TREMOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922939606     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2014.11.003     Document Type: Article

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