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Transcranial electrical current stimulation includes various types such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), oscillatory transcranial direct current stimulation (otDCS) and transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS). In this chapter, we introduce the pricinple neural mechanism of each stimulation type respectively and discuss the factors that related to the effect size of each sitmulation. Except the single channel transcranial electrial current stimulation, we also introduce the state-of-the-art multichannel stimulation method.

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Wang, J., Liu, S., Zhou, Q., Dai, X., Du, J. (2023). Transcranial Electrical Stimulation. In: Wang, Y. (eds) Therapeutics of Neural Stimulation for Neurological Disorders. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4538-2_6

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