Origins of specificity during tDCS: Anatomical, activity-selective, and input-bias mechanisms

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Bikson, Marom ^a   Rahman, Asif ^a  

^a City College of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomical brain connectivity; Neuromodulation; Stimulation protocol; Transcranial direct current stimulation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84933674458     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00688     Document Type: Article

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