Adjuvant transcranial direct current stimulation for treating Alzheimer's disease: A case study

ABSTRACT We report the case of a 73-year-old male patient with Alzheimer's disease who underwent 10-daily transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) sessions. tDCS was applied over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex as an adjuvant to the traditional treatment that the patient was recei...

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Main Authors: Suellen Marinho Andrade, Camila Teresa Ponce Leon de Mendonça, Thobias Cavalcanti Laurindo Pereira, Bernardino Fernandez-Calvo, Regina Coely Neves Araújo, Nelson Torro Alves
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
Series:Dementia & Neuropsychologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642016000200156&lng=en&tlng=en