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. 2022 Sep-Oct;15(5):1221-1222.
doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2022.08.018. Epub 2022 Aug 28.

A minimum effective dose for (transcranial) alternating current stimulation

Ivan Alekseichuk  1 , Miles Wischnewski  2 , Alexander Opitz  2
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A minimum effective dose for (transcranial) alternating current stimulation

Ivan Alekseichuk et al. Brain Stimul. 2022 Sep-Oct.
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Declaration of competing interest All authors declare no competing interests.

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Fig. 1.
Meta-analysis of alternating current (AC)-induced electric field magnitudes that led to minimum significant neural changes. The probability functions were fitted into the literature data from studies in brain slices and anesthetized rodents (blue) and awake/behaving rodents and nonhuman primates (red). The shaded areas correspond to CI99.
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