Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) applied to left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex disrupts verbal working memory performance in humans

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 418, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 232-235

  Osaka, Naoyuki ^a   Otsuka, Yuki ^a   Hirose, Nobuyuki ^a   Ikeda, Takashi ^a   Mima, Tatsuya ^a   Fukuyama, Hidenao ^a   Osaka, Mariko ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC); Reading span test (RST); Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; READING; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34247631033     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.01.087     Document Type: Article

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