Non-invasive brain stimulation improves object-location learning in the elderly

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1682-1689

  Flöel, Agnes ^a   Suttorp, Wiebke ^b   Kohl, Oliver ^b   Kürten, Julia ^b   Lohmann, Hubertus ^b   Breitenstein, Caterina ^b   Knecht, Stefan ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Associative learning; Memory; Neuroplasticity; TDCS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT LOCATION LEARNING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856636498     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.05.007     Document Type: Article

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