Transcranial direct current stimulation of the prefrontal cortex increases attention to visual target stimuli

Journal of Neural Transmission

Volumn 123, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1195-1203

  Vierheilig, Nina ^a   Mühlberger, Andreas ^b   Polak, Thomas ^a   Herrmann, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Early posterior negativity; Emotion; tDCS

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964043871     PISSN: 03009564     EISSN: 14351463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-016-1542-5     Document Type: Article

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