A framework for categorizing electrode montages in transcranial direct current stimulation

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Nasseri, Padideh ^a,b   Nitsche, Michael A ^c   Ekhtiari, Hamed ^a,b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Iranian Institute for Cognitive Sciences Studies ICSS   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrode montages; Multi electrode stimulation; Non invasive brain stimulation; Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); Transcranial electrical stimulation (TES)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLASSIFICATION; CONNECTOME; ELECTRODE; ELECTRODE MONTAGE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPISODIC MEMORY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 84933675788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00054     Document Type: Article

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