Learning, memory, and transcranial direct current stimulation

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Brasil Neto, Joaquim P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Learning; Memory; tDCS

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FALSE MEMORY; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROMODULATION; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RECALL; RECOGNITION; STRIATE CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84867115513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2012.00080     Document Type: Article

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