Cognitive effects and autonomic responses to transcranial pulsed current stimulation

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 233, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 701-709

  Morales Quezada, Leon ^a,b   Cosmo, Camila ^a,c   Carvalho, Sandra ^a,d   Leite, Jorge ^a,d   Castillo Saavedra, Laura ^a   Rozisky, Joanna R ^a   Fregni, Felipe ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF BAHIA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Autonomic response; Cognition; HRV; Math task; tPCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL TASK; MENTAL ARITHMETIC; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE STIMULATOR; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STRESS; STROOP TEST; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL PULSED CURRENT STIMULATION; VAGUS TONE; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; DECISION MAKING; HEART RATE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925510395     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-014-4147-y     Document Type: Article

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