On the possible role of stimulation duration for after-effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue AUGUST, 2015, Pages

  Strüber, Daniel ^a   Rach, Stefan ^b   Neuling, Toralf ^c   Herrmann, Christoph S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY BIPS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

EEG; Electroencephalography; Entrainment; NIBS; Non invasive brain stimulation; Synaptic plasticity; tACS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NORMAL HUMAN; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISION;

EID: 84940204715     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00311     Document Type: Article

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