Effects of Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Working Memory: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Findings from Healthy and Neuropsychiatric Populations

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 197-208

  Hill, Aron T ^a   Fitzgerald, Paul B ^a   Hoy, Kate E ^a  

^a Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognition; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; Psychiatry; Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANODAL TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CURRENT DENSITY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPONSE TIME; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKING MEMORY; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; HEALTH; MENTAL DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

COHORT STUDIES; ELECTRODES; HEALTH; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL DISORDERS; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84961195754     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2015.10.006     Document Type: Review

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