Tiwari, Vikas Kumar http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5835-3333
Nanda, Srishti http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3901-5181
Arya, Suvercha
Kumar, Uma
Sharma, Ratna
Kumaran, Senthil S.
Bhatia, Renu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3022-5281
Article History
Received: 9 September 2020
Accepted: 2 January 2021
First Online: 18 February 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was conducted at the Pain Research and TMS Laboratory, Department of Physiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Human Ethics committee of the AIIMS, New Delhi (Ref No: IECPG-15/16.02.2017RT-27/26.04.2017) approved the research protocol in 2017. The study was also registered in the Clinical Trials Registry of India (CTRI; Ref No: CTRI/2017/09/009827). All procedures performed during study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Human Ethics committee of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. Participants were required to sign written, informed consent for the study.
: Consent to publish was also obtained from all the participants included in the study.
: No potential conflict of interest was relevant to this manuscript.