BOLD signal effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) in the alpha range: A concurrent tACS–fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 140, Issue , 2016, Pages 118-125

  Vosskuhl, Johannes ^a   Huster, René J ^a,b,c   Herrmann, Christoph S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c MIND RESEARCH NETWORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha tACS; Event related fMRI; Resting state fMRI; Transcranial alternating current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; VISUAL VIGILANCE TASK; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED RESPONSE; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84989912879     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.10.003     Document Type: Article

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