State-of-art neuroanatomical target analysis of high-definition and conventional tDCS montages used for migraine and pain control

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 9, Issue July, 2015, Pages

  DaSilva, Alexandre F ^a   Truong, Dennis Q ^b   DosSantos, Marcos F ^a,c   Toback, Rebecca L ^a   Datta, Abhishek ^d   Bikson, Marom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b City College of New York   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d Soterix Medical   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element modeling; HD tDCS; Neuromodulation; Pain; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MIGRAINE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOGENIC PAIN; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 84937939177     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2015.00089     Document Type: Article

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