Electricity and the Brain: An Historical Evaluation

The Stimulated Brain: Cognitive Enhancement Using Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3-33

  Elliott, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electroconvulsive therapy; Electrotherapy; Medicine; Psychiatry; Transcranial electrical stimulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924725537     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-404704-4.00001-6     Document Type: Chapter

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