Targeting the neurophysiology of cognitive systems with transcranial alternating current stimulation

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 145-167

  Fröhlich, Flavio ^a,b,c   Sellers, Kristin K ^a,b,c   Cordle, Asa L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive symptoms; Cortex; Non invasive brain stimulation; Non pharmacological treatments; Oscillations; Psychiatric illness; RDoC; Research domain criteria project; TACS; Transcranial alternating current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING CURRENT; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUDITORY CORTEX; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR SYSTEM; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SLEEP SPINDLE; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; STRIATE CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; VISUAL INFORMATION; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84921816640     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737175.2015.992782     Document Type: Review

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