Bifrontal tDCS prevents implicit learning acquisition in antidepressant-free patients with major depressive disorder

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue , 2013, Pages 146-150

  Brunoni, Andre Russowsky ^a   Zanao, Tamires Araujo ^a   Ferrucci, Roberta ^b   Priori, Alberto ^b   Valiengo, Leandro ^a   de Oliveira, Janaina Farias ^a   Boggio, Paulo S ^c   Lotufo, Paulo A ^a   Benseñor, Isabela M ^a   Fregni, Felipe ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^d and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit memory; Major depressive disorder; Probabilistic classification learning; Procedural learning; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; SERTRALINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; LEARNING; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURAL MEMORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHAM PROCEDURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BENZODIAZEPINES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE NET; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84872507236     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: 18784216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2012.12.019     Document Type: Article

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