The timing of cognitive plasticity in physiological aging: A tDCS study of naming

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Fertonani, Anna ^a   Brambilla, Michela ^a   Cotelli, Maria ^a   Miniussi, Carlo ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Facilitation; Language; Neuroplasticity; NIBS; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN STIMULATOR; COGNITION; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL EXCITABILITY; DEPTH ELECTRODE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROLOGICAL THERAPEUTIC DEVICE; NORMAL HUMAN; PICTURE NAMING TASK; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RESPONSE TIME; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SYNAPTIC EFFICACY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VERBAL REACTION TIME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903489664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00131     Document Type: Article

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