Electrical brain stimulation improves cognitive performance by modulating functional connectivity and task-specific activation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1859-1866

  Meinzer, Marcus ^a   Antonenko, Daria ^a   Lindenberg, Robert ^a   Hetzer, Stefan ^a   Ulm, Lena ^b   Avirame, Keren ^a   Flaisch, Tobias ^c   Flöel, Agnes ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MOOD CHANGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; BRAIN; COGNITION; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856637518     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4812-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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