Emotional distraction and bodily reaction: Modulation of autonomous responses by anodal tDCS to the prefrontal cortex

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue DEC, 2015, Pages

  Schroeder, Philipp A ^a,b   Ehlis, Ann Christine ^a,b   Wolkenstein, Larissa ^b   Fallgatter, Andreas J ^a,b   Plewnia, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Autonomous nervous system; Cognitive control; Emotional distraction; Non invasive brain stimulation; Skin conductance response; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MODULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAMET; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84954046436     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00482     Document Type: Article

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