Cross-hemispheric alternating current stimulation during a nap disrupts slow wave activity and associated memory consolidation

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 520-527

  Garside, Peter ^a,b   Arizpe, Joseph ^a,c   Lau, Chi Ieong ^a,d   Goh, Crystal ^a   Walsh, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^d SHIN KONG WU HO SU MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Declarative memory; Delta wave; Memory consolidation; Montage; Nap; Oscillations; Sleep; Slow wave sleep; tACS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATING CURRENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONREM SLEEP; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SLEEP STAGE; SLEEP TIME; SLOW WAVE ACTIVITY; SLOW WAVE SLEEP; TRANSCRANIAL ALTERNATING CURRENT STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS; WORKING MEMORY; BRAIN; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; SLEEP; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; SLEEP; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940196224     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2014.12.010     Document Type: Article

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