Prefrontal tDCS decreases pain in patients with multiple sclerosis

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue APR, 2016, Pages

  Ayache, Samar S ^a,b,c   Palm, Ulrich ^a,d   Chalah, Moussa A ^a,b   Al Ani, Tarik ^a   Brigno, Arnaud ^e   Abdellaoui, Mohamed ^b   Dimitri, Dalia ^b   Sorel, Marc ^a   Créange, Alain ^a,b   Lefaucheur, Jean Pascal ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^b HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^c RIZK HOSPITAL   (Lebanon)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Multiple sclerosis; Pain; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRIEF PAIN INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOOD; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84966430863     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00147     Document Type: Article

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