No effect of cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation on fear memory in healthy human subjects

Brain Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Mungee, Aditya ^a,b   Burger, Max ^a   Bajbouj, Malek ^a,b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Direct current stimulation; Fear conditioning; Memory; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FEAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84995563199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci6040055     Document Type: Article

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