A Pioneer Work on Electric Brain Stimulation in Psychotic Patients. Rudolph Gottfried Arndt and his 1870s Studies

Background: Today's brain stimulation methods are commonly traced back historically to surgical brain operations. With this one-sided historical approach it is easy to overlook the fact that non-surgical electrical brain-stimulating applications preceded present-day therapies. Objective/Hypothe...

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Main Author: Holger Steinberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-07-01
Series:Brain Stimulation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1935861X12002057