"Brain-Doping," Is It a Real Threat?

Darías Holgado^{1

2}, Miguel A Vadillo³, Daniel Sanabria²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
² Department of Experimental Psychology, Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Centre, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
³ Department of Basic Psychology, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Darías Holgado et al. Front Physiol. 2019.

. 2019 Apr 24:10:483.

doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00483. eCollection 2019.

Darías Holgado^{1

2}, Miguel A Vadillo³, Daniel Sanabria²

¹ Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
² Department of Experimental Psychology, Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Centre, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
³ Department of Basic Psychology, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

No abstract available

Keywords: brain stimulation; doping; exercise performance; meta-analaysis; sports performance; tDCS — transcranial direct current stimulation.

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Commentary: "Brain-Doping," Is It a Real Threat?
Zhu Z, Zhou J, Manor B, Wang X, Fu W, Liu Y. Zhu Z, et al. Front Physiol. 2019 Dec 5;10:1489. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.01489. eCollection 2019. Front Physiol. 2019. PMID: 31866878 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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