anodal

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Researchers speak of anodal and cathodal stimulation, and the convention is that + is anodal and - is cathodal.

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Relating to, functioning as, or occurring at an anode.

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adjective

Relating to, functioning as, or occurring at an anode.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for anodal.

adjective

Relating to, functioning as, or occurring at an anode.

Example sentences

Researchers speak of anodal and cathodal stimulation, and the convention is that + is anodal and - is cathodal.

Neither anodal nor cathodal tDCS resulted in any serious adverse events (AEs).

What we still don't have is the identification of + with anodal and - with cathodal.

Researchers speak of anodal stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

That beats the anodal and cathodal arrows of the previous diagram.

One hundred patients with various chronic pain syndromes received 815 tDCS sessions (639 anodal and 176 cathodal) delivered as 172 five-day treatment blocks (131 anodal, 35 cathodal; 80 patients received only anodal treatment blocks, 14 patients only cathodal blocks, 6 received both).

The adherence to the tDCS treatment was very good: patients completed 92% (111 of 121) of anodal five-day treatment blocks and 100% (35 of 35) of cathodal blocks, indicating high acceptability of tDCS procedure.

And so one must continue searching through the literature--which should be done in any case--until one comes to something approximating a consensus on node placement and the meaning of anodal and cathodal versus positive and negative.

Quote examples

There is an arrow leading from the active contact to the reference contact labeled "anodal" and another arrow from the reference contact labeled "cathodal".