Can transcranial direct current stimulation improve cognitive functioning in adults with schizophrenia?

Clinical Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 133-143

  Schretlen, David J ^a   Van Steenburgh, Joseph J ^a   Varvaris, Mark ^a   Vannorsdall, Tracy D ^a   Andrejczuk, Megan A ^a   Gordon, Barry ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Memory short term; Schizophrenia; Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); Verbal beh

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANODAL TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CATHODAL TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSOLATERAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; IDEATIONAL FLUENCY; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VERBAL FLUENCY; WORKING MEMORY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPLICATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ADULT; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 85037035937     PISSN: 19351232     EISSN: 19412010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3371/csrp.scst.103114     Document Type: Article

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