Nosce te ipsum - Socrates revisited? Controlling momentary ruminative self-referent thoughts by neuromodulation of emotional working memory

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 2581-2589

  Vanderhasselt, Marie Anne ^a   Brunoni, Andre R ^b   Loeys, Tom ^a   Boggio, Paulo S ^c   De Raedt, Rudi ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c MACKENZIE PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Rumination; Self referent thinking; Transcranial direct current stimulation; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF CONCEPT; SELF EVALUATION; SHAM PROCEDURE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; WORKING MEMORY;

RUMINATION; SELF-REFERENT THINKING; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SELF CONCEPT; THINKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886280442     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.08.011     Document Type: Article

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