BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation
Volume 2, Issue 4 , Pages 241-245 , October 2009

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation or transcranial direct current stimulation?

  • Alberto Priori

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Università degli Studi di Milano, Centro Clinico per le Neuronanotecnologie e la Neurostimolazione, Fondazione IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli e Regina Elena, Milano, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence: Prof. Alberto Priori, Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Università di Milano, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano, Via Francesco Sforza 35, 20122 Milano, Italy.
    • ,
  • Mark Hallett

      Affiliations

    • Human Motor Control Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Maryland
    • ,
  • John C. Rothwell

      Affiliations

    • Sobell Department, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom

Received 7 January 2009 ,Revised 17 February 2009 ,Accepted 24 February 2009.

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 JCR was funded by the Medical Research Council, UK.

 MH is supported by the Intramural Program of NINDS, NIH.

PII: S1935-861X(09)00012-6

doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2009.02.004

BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation
Volume 2, Issue 4 , Pages 241-245 , October 2009

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