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Feeling the heat: the electrode–skin interface during DCS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2014

Jim Lagopoulos*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, CADE Clinic, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia Academic Discipline of Psychological Medicine, Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Advanced Research and Clinical High-field Imaging, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Racheal Degabriele
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, CADE Clinic, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia Academic Discipline of Psychological Medicine, Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
*
Dr Jim Lagopoulos, CADE Clinic, Level 5, Building 36 Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards NSW 2065, Australia. Tel: +61 2 9926 7746; Fax: +61 2 9926 7730; E-mail: jlagopoulos@med.usyd.edu.au

Abstract

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Type
Brain Bytes
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 Blackwell Munksgaard

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