Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex enhances working memory

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 234, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1807-1818

  Bagherzadeh, Yasaman ^a,d   Khorrami, Anahita ^a   Zarrindast, Mohammad Reza ^a,b   Shariat, Seyed Vahid ^a,c   Pantazis, Dimitrios ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE STUDIES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive enhancement; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELAYED MATCH TO SAMPLE TEST; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIGIT SPAN TEST; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION MEMORY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; SPATIAL 2 BACK TEST; SPATIAL RECOGNITION MEMORY TEST; SPATIAL SPAN TEST; STOCKINGS OF CAMBRIDGE TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION SYSTEM; WORKING MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROCEDURES; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPATIAL MEMORY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958742053     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-016-4580-1     Document Type: Article

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