Transcranial Alternating Current and Random Noise Stimulation: Possible Mechanisms

Neural Plasticity

Volumn 2016, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Antal, Andrea ^a   Herrmann, Christoph S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CURRENT DENSITY; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXCITABILITY; HIPPOCAMPAL SLICE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PREDICTION; REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL RANDOM NOISE STIMULATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; HUMANS; NEURONS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84971254313     PISSN: 20905904     EISSN: 16875443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2016/3616807     Document Type: Review

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