Older Adults Improve on Everyday Tasks after Working Memory Training and Neurostimulation

Brain Stimulation

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 553-559

  Stephens, Jaclyn A ^a   Berryhill, Marian E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; COMT; TDCS; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; AGING; COGNITIVE REMEDIATION THERAPY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

AGED; AGING; COGNITIVE REMEDIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENOTYPE; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84974831741     PISSN: 1935861X     EISSN: 18764754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2016.04.001     Document Type: Article

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