Transcranial slow oscillation stimulation during NREM sleep enhances acquisition of the radial maze task and modulates cortical network activity in rats

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Binder, Sonja ^a   Rawohl, Julia ^a   Born, Jan ^a,b   Marshall, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consolidation; EEG; Reference memory; Sleep; Slow oscillation stimulation; tDCS; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA RHYTHM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NONREM SLEEP; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RADIAL ARM MAZE TEST; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; SLEEP SPINDLE; SLOW OSCILLATION TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THETA RHYTHM; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 84892152403     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00220     Document Type: Article

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