Brain stimulation improves cognitive control by modulating medial-frontal activity and preSMA-vmPFC functional connectivity

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4004-4015

  Yu, Jiaxin ^a,b   Tseng, Philip ^c,d   Hung, Daisy L ^b   Wu, Shih Wei ^a   Juan, Chi Hung ^b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

FMRI; PreSMA; Response inhibition; TDCS; VmPFC

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANODAL TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VELOCITY; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942293671     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22893     Document Type: Article

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