Brain enhancement through cognitive training: A new insight from brain connectome

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue APR, 2015, Pages

  Taya, Fumihiko ^a   Sun, Yu ^a   Babiioni, Fabio ^b   Thakor, Nitish ^a,c   Bezerianos, Anastasios ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Brain connectome; Cognitive training; Electroencephalography (EEG); Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONNECTOME; DYSTHYMIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROFEEDBACK; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL MONITORING; REVIEW; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

EID: 84928106373     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00044     Document Type: Review

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