ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2018
Modulation of Working Memory Using Transcranial Electrical Stimulation: A Direct Comparison Between TACS and TDCS.
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- Efficacy and safety of tACS in older adults with cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Pooled it
- Is transcranial alternating current stimulation effective for improving working memory? A three-level meta-analysis.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Pooled it
- Identifying regions in prefrontal cortex related to working memory improvement: A novel meta-analytic method using electric field modeling.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Long-term effects of bifrontal transcranial alternating current stimulation on verbal working memory and episodic memory in young healthy adults.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Theta tACS impairs episodic memory more than tDCS.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
- Non-invasive brain stimulation modulates GABAergic activity in neurofibromatosis 1.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Theta band high definition transcranial alternating current stimulation, but not transcranial direct current stimulation, improves associative memory performance.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- Effect of theta-transcranial alternating current stimulation on working memory performance among healthy adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Phase-lagged tACS between executive and default mode networks modulates working memory.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Neurophysiological insights into catecholamine-dependent tDCS modulation of cognitive control.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Alpha-Oscillatory Current Application Impacts Prospective Remembering Through Strategic Monitoring.Psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Exploring anterior thalamus functional connectivity with cortical regions in prospective memory with ultra-high-field functional MRI.Brain communications · 2025Article
- Theta-gamma-coupling as predictor of working memory performance in young and elderly healthy people.Molecular brain · 2024Article
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- Exploring the Prospects of Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (tES) as a Therapeutic Intervention for Post-Stroke Motor Recovery: A Narrative Review.Brain sciences · 2024Review
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- Insights from a model based study on optimizing non invasive brain electrical stimulation for Parkinson's disease.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The effect of transcranial electrical stimulation on the relief of mental fatigue.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Meta-modeling the effects of anodal left prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation on working memory performance.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- No effects of the theta-frequency transcranial electrical stimulation for recall, attention control, and relation integration in working memory.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
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Abstract
Transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) has been considered a promising tool for improving working memory (WM) performance. Recent studies have demonstrated modulation of networks underpinning WM processing through application of transcranial alternating current (TACS) as well as direct current (TDCS) stimulation. Differences between study designs have limited direct comparison of the efficacy of these approaches, however. Here we directly compared the effects of theta TACS (6 Hz) and anodal TDCS on WM, applying TACS to the frontal-parietal loop and TDCS to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). WM was evaluated using a visual 2-back WM task. A within-subject, crossover design was applied (
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