Trial reportPloS one2015
Modulating Memory Performance in Healthy Subjects with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Over the Right Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effects of transcranial electrical stimulation on face identification and related perceptual processes: a systematic review.Psychological research · 2026Pooled it
- Systematic review and network meta-analysis of effects of noninvasive brain stimulation on post-stroke cognitive impairment.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- The effect of the interval-between-sessions on prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on cognitive outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2016Pooled it
- Effectiveness of noninvasive brain stimulation in the treatment of anxiety disorders: a meta-analysis of sham or behaviour-controlled studies.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPNPooled it
- Prefrontal tDCS fails to modulate memory retrieval in younger and older adults.Current biology : CB · 2025Trial
- No Effect of Anodal tDCS on Verbal Episodic Memory Performance and Neurotransmitter Levels in Young and Elderly Participants.Neural plasticity · 2020Trial
- Impact of 3-Day Combined Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation-Visuospatial Training on Object-Location Memory in Healthy Older Adults and Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2020Trial
- Prefrontal TDCS does not improve working memory performance in individuals with chronic alcohol and tobacco use.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2026Article
- Approach Motivation and Reward Sensitivity: Effects of High-Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (HD-tDCS) to Brain Hemispheres on Effort-Related Cardiovascular Response.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- The effects of age and delay task duration on attentional boost effect: evidence from behavior and fNIRS.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Lack of effects of online HD-tDCS over the left or right DLPFC in an associative memory and metamemory monitoring task.PloS one · 2024Article
- Right-lateralized sleep spindles are associated with neutral over emotional bias in picture recognition: An overnight study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Sensory Processing Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Taking Stock of Assessment and Novel Therapeutic Tools.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Load-Dependent Prefrontal Cortex Activation Assessed by Continuous-Wave Near-Infrared Spectroscopy during Two Executive Tasks with Three Cognitive Loads in Young Adults.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Association of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Neurofeedback With Declarative Memory and Cerebral Arterial Flow in University Students: Protocol for a Double-blind Randomized Controlled Study.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Trains at 1 Hz Frequency of the Right Posterior Parietal Cortex Facilitate Recognition Memory.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Neural Mechanism of Repeated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Enhance Visual Working Memory in Elderly Individuals With Subjective Cognitive Decline.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Article
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Over the Right Anterior Temporal Lobe Does Not Modulate False Recognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Facial Emotion Recognition in Children and Adolescents with Specific Learning Disorder.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Examining the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on human episodic memory with machine learning.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe role of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC) in recognition memory has been well documented in lesion, neuroimaging and repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) studies. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) over the left and the right DLPFC during the delay interval of a non-verbal recognition memory task.
method36 right-handed young healthy subjects participated in the study. The experimental task was an Italian version of Recognition Memory Test for unknown faces. Study included two experiments: in a first experiment, each subject underwent one session of sham tDCS and one session of left or right cathodal tDCS; in a second experiment each subject underwent one session of sham tDCS and one session of left or right anodal tDCS.
resultsCathodal tDCS over the right DLPFC significantly improved non verbal recognition memory performance, while cathodal tDCS over the left DLPFC had no effect. Anodal tDCS of both the left and right DLPFC did not modify non verbal recognition memory performance.
conclusionComplementing the majority of previous studies, reporting long term memory facilitations following left prefrontal anodal tDCS, the present findings show that cathodal tDCS of the right DLPFC can also improve recognition memory in healthy subjects.
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