Action mechanisms of transcranial direct current stimulation in Alzheimer's disease and memory loss

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  Hansen, Niels ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cerebral blood flow; F rontotemporal dementia; Memory loss; Network connectivity; Neurotransmitter modulation; Synaptic and non synaptic after effects; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; REVIEW; SKIN REDNESS; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84866875787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2012.00048     Document Type: Review

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