It's all in your head: reinforcing the placebo response with tDCS

H M Schambra¹, M Bikson², T D Wager³, M F DosSantos⁴, A F DaSilva⁵

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¹ Departments of Neurology and Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: hms2150@cumc.columbia.edu.
² Department of Biomedical Engineering, The City College of New York, NY, USA.
³ Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
⁴ Health Sciences Center, Grande Rio University, Brazil.
⁵ Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

PMID: 24810955
PMCID: PMC4108558
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2014.04.002

It's all in your head: reinforcing the placebo response with tDCS

H M Schambra et al. Brain Stimul. 2014 Jul-Aug.

. 2014 Jul-Aug;7(4):623-4.

doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2014.04.002. Epub 2014 Apr 15.

Authors

H M Schambra¹, M Bikson², T D Wager³, M F DosSantos⁴, A F DaSilva⁵

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Neurology and Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: hms2150@cumc.columbia.edu.
² Department of Biomedical Engineering, The City College of New York, NY, USA.
³ Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
⁴ Health Sciences Center, Grande Rio University, Brazil.
⁵ Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

PMID: 24810955
PMCID: PMC4108558
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2014.04.002

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