ReviewFrontiers in systems neuroscience2014
Transcranial direct current stimulation for memory enhancement: from clinical research to animal models.
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- Anodal HD-tDCS on the dominant anterior temporal lobe and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: clinical results in patients with mild cognitive impairment.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2024Trial
- The neuromodulatory effect of tDCS in patients affected by functional motor symptoms: an exploratory study.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2019Trial
- The role of transcranial direct current stimulaton on ataxia: a scoping review.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2026Review
- A Verification Report of Three Meta-Analyses in Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation-Motor Learning Research.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Review
- Effectiveness of Transcranial Stimulation on Cognitive Abilities of Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Non-invasive therapeutics for neurotrauma: a mechanistic overview.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Review
- Frontoparietal network topology as a neural marker of musical perceptual abilities.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Repeated Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (RA-tDCS) over the Left Frontal Lobe Increases Bilateral Hippocampal Cell Proliferation in Young Adult but Not Middle-Aged Female Mice.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Rescue of astrocyte activity by the calcium sensor STIM1 restores long-term synaptic plasticity in female mice modelling Alzheimer's disease.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Optimizing the Effect of tDCS on Motor Sequence Learning in the Elderly.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Neural Mechanism Underlying Task-Specific Enhancement of Motor Learning by Concurrent Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation.Neuroscience bulletin · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of Anodal otDCS Following with Anodal tDCS Rather than tDCS Alone for Increasing of Relative Power of Intrinsic Matched EEG Bands in Rat Brains.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Direct current stimulation modulates gene expression in isolated astrocytes with implications for glia-mediated plasticity.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) reduces motivation to drink ethanol and reacquisition of ethanol self-administration in female mice.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Inpatient suicide in psychiatric settings: Evaluation of current prevention measures.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
- The Neurostimulation of the Brain in Depression Trial: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Treatment-Resistant Depression.JMIR research protocols · 2021Article
- The effects of lithium chloride and cathodal/anodal transcranial direct current stimulation on conditional fear memory changes and the level of p-mTOR/mTOR in PFC of male NMRI mice.Metabolic brain disease · 2021Article
- The Effect of Adding Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Patients With Delayed Encephalopathy After Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: A Randomised Controlled Trial.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- Frontoparietal anodal tDCS reduces ketamine-induced oscillopathies.Translational neuroscience · 2021Article
- Prior cortical activity differences during an action observation plus motor imagery task related to motor adaptation performance of a coordinated multi-limb complex task.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2020Article
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Abstract
There is a growing demand for new brain-enhancing technologies to improve mental performance, both for patients with cognitive disorders and for healthy individuals. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive, painless, and easy to use neuromodulatory technique that can improve performance on a variety of cognitive tasks in humans despite its exact mode of action remains unclear. We have conducted a mini-review of the literature to first briefly summarize the growing amount of data from clinical trials assessing the efficacy of tDCS, focusing exclusively on learning and memory performances in healthy human subjects and in patients with depression, schizophrenia, and other neurological disorders. We then discuss these findings in the context of the strikingly few studies resulting from animal research. Finally, we highlight future directions and limitations in this field and emphasize the need to develop translational studies to better understand how tDCS improves memory, a necessary condition before it can be used as a therapeutic tool.
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