Brain stimulation for combating Alzheimer's disease

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 5 JUN, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Hansen, Niels ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Brain stimulation; Cognition; Deep brain stimulation; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Memory; Transcranial direct current stimulation; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FORNIX; CEREBELLAR THETA BURST STIMULATION; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; COMPREHENSION; EAR; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; LONG INTERVAL INTRACORTICAL INHIBITION; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NOTE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RADIO ELECTRIC ASYMMETRIC BRAIN STIMULATION; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; SHORT LATENCY AFFERENT INHIBITION; SPINE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84904415150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2014.00080     Document Type: Note

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