Pediatric stroke and transcranial direct current stimulation: Methods for rational individualized dose optimization

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gillick, Bernadette T ^a   Kirton, Adam ^b   Carmel, Jason B ^c   Minhas, Preet ^d   Bikson, Marom ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c BURKE MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemiparesis; Modeling; Pediatrics; Stroke; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CRANIAL ELECTROTHERAPY STIMULATOR; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HEMIPARESIS; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROMODULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERINATAL PERIOD; SAFETY; SCHOOL CHILD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84933676765     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00739     Document Type: Article

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