Transcranial direct current stimulation of the primary motor cortex improves word-retrieval in older adults

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Meinzer, M ^a,b   Lindenberg, R ^b   Sieg, M M ^b   Nachtigall, L ^b   Ulm, L ^a,b   Floel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Language; Motor; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84907174742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00253     Document Type: Article

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