Perceived comfort and blinding efficacy in randomised sham-controlled transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) trials at 2 mA in young and older healthy adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Wallace, Denise ^a   Cooper, Nicholas R ^a   Paulmann, Silke ^a   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^b   Russo, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMFORT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84960510751     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149703     Document Type: Article

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