A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled parallel trial of closed-loop infraslow brain training in food

Sook Ling Leong1, Sven Vanneste2, Joyce Lim3

  • 1Section of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgical Sciences, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. sookling.leong@otago.ac.nz.

Scientific Reports
|August 5, 2018
PubMed

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