Preliminary evidence for performance enhancement following parietal lobe stimulation in Developmental Dyscalculia

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 1 FEB, 2014, Pages

  Iuculano, Teresa ^a,b,c   Kadosh, Roi Cohen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Developmental Dyscalculia; Learning; Neural compensation; Rehabilitation; Transcranial electrical stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITION; DEVELOPMENTAL DYSCALCULIA; DYSCALCULIA; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LEARNING; LEARNING TEST; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NUMBER LINE TASK; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; STROOP TEST; TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 84893608425     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00038     Document Type: Article

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