Keep calm and carry on: Improved frustration tolerance and processing speed by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Plewnia, Christian ^a   Schroeder, Philipp A ^a   Kunze, Roland ^a   Faehling, Florian ^a   Wolkenstein, Larissa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMOTIONALITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRUSTRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NORMAL HUMAN; PACED AUDITORY SERIAL ADDITION TASK; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; SHAM PROCEDURE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926660030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122578     Document Type: Article

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