Letter to the EditorThe effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on auditory hallucination in patients with schizophrenia
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Contributors
Authors Jun Soo Kwon and Tae Young Lee were responsible for the design of the whole study and wrote the protocol. Author Tae Young Lee wrote the manuscript. Authors Tae Young Lee, Junhee Lee, and Minah Kim supported the analysis, interpretation and manuscript revision. All authors contributed and approved the final manuscript.
Role of funding source
This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (NRF-2015R1C1A1A01053988) and (NRF-2017M3C7A1029610).
Conflict of interest
None.
Acknowledgement
We thank In-Young Ahn, Shin-ae Yeom for literature searching. We also thank the authors of the study that sent the necessary details for the analysis.
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