Personalized TMS helmets for quick and reliable TMS administration outside of a laboratory setting.
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SUBMITTER: Badran BW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7888559 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May - Jun
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Personalized TMS helmets for quick and reliable TMS administration outside of a laboratory setting.
Badran Bashar W BW Caulfield Kevin A KA Lopez James W JW Cox Claire C Stomberg-Firestein Sasha S DeVries William H WH McTeague Lisa M LM George Mark S MS Roberts Donna D
Brain stimulation 20200114 3
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