A double-blind randomized clinical trial on the efficacy of cortical direct current stimulation for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Khedr, Eman M ^a   El Gamal, Nageh F ^a   El Fetoh, Noha Abo ^a   Khalifa, Hosam ^a   Ahmed, Elham M ^a   Ali, Anwer M ^a   Noaman, Mostafa ^a   El Baki, Ahmed Abd ^a   Karim, Ahmed A ^b,c  

^a ASSIUT UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Riedlingen University SRH FernHochschule   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Auditory event related potentials (P300); Cognitive function; Cortical excitability; Cortical plasticity; Transcranial direct current stimulation; Wechsler Adult Intelligent Scale

Indexed keywords

E1A ASSOCIATED P300 PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APPLICATION SITE PRURITUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LATENT PERIOD; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHAM PROCEDURE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

EID: 84926648814     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00275     Document Type: Article

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