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Nigel C Rogasch1, Zafiris J Daskalakis2, Paul B Fitzgerald3

  • 1Monash Alfred Psychiatry Research Centre, Central Clinical School, The Alfred and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; Monash Clinical and Imaging Neuroscience, School of Psychological Science and Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior
|December 3, 2014
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Keywords:
Cortical inhibitionDorsolateral prefrontal cortexElectroencephalographyTranscranial magnetic stimulationWorking memory

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