Gender differences in current received during transcranial electrical stimulation

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Russell, Michael ^a   Goodman, Theodore ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Groshong, Bennett ^a   Lyeth, Bruce G ^b  

^a Aaken Laboratories ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DC stimulation, AC stimulation; Modeling; MRI; Transcranial electrical stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKULL; TRABECULAR BONE; TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84929169841     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00104     Document Type: Article

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