Anodal tDCS during face-name associations memory training in Alzheimer's patients

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Cotelli, Maria ^a   Manenti, Rosa ^a   Petesi, Michela ^a   Brambilla, Michela ^a   Rosini, Sandra ^a   Ferrari, Clarissa ^a   Zanetti, Orazio ^a   Miniussi, Carlo ^a,b  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dementia; Memory; Stimulation; Tdcs; Training

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANODAL TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FACE NAME ASSOCIATION MEMORY TASK; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE STIMULATOR; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84898042302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00038     Document Type: Article

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