Slow oscillation electrical brain stimulation during waking promotes EEG theta activity and memory encoding

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 36, 2009, Pages 15460-15465

  Kirov, Roumen ^a,b   Weiss, Carsten ^a   Siebner, Hartwig R ^c,d   Born, Jan ^a   Marshall, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cortex; Plasticity; Sleep; tDCS (transcranial direct current stimulation); Transcranial slow oscillation stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THETA RHYTHM; VERBAL MEMORY; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; GERMANY; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; OSCILLOMETRY; THETA RHYTHM; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 70349313610     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904438106     Document Type: Article

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