Noninvasive stimulation of prefrontal cortex strengthens existing episodic memories and reduces forgetting in the elderly

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Sandrini, Marco ^a,b   Brambilla, Michela ^c   Manenti, Rosa ^c   Rosini, Sandra ^c   Cohen, Leonardo G ^a   Cotelli, Maria ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Aging; Enhancement; Episodic memory; Forgetting; Memory; Prefrontal cortex; Reconsolidation; tDCS

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECALL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84909645651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2014.00289     Document Type: Article

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