Computational Modeling Assisted Design of Optimized and Individualized Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Protocols

The Stimulated Brain: Cognitive Enhancement Using Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 85-115

  Truong, Dennis ^a   Minhas, Preet ^a   Nair, Abhilash ^a   Bikson, Marom ^a  

^a City College of the City University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Finite element; Lesion; Modeling; Neuromodulation; Obesity; Pediatric; Skull defects; Stroke; TDCS; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942258048     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-404704-4.00004-1     Document Type: Chapter

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