ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2020
Testing network properties of episodic memory using non-invasive brain stimulation.
Article in Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04748146 (CAUSAL MECHANISMS OF DISTRIBUTED BRAIN NETWORK FUNCTION DURING EPISODIC MEMORY RETRIEVAL), which is not on this map. Cited by 28 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Causal mechanisms of distributed brain network function during episodic memory retrieval
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.
- A meta-analysis suggests that TMS targeting the hippocampal network selectively improves episodic memory.eLife · 2026Pooled it
- Information content best characterises the hemispheric selectivity of the inferior parietal lobe: a meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2020Pooled it
- Visuospatial Learning Selectively Enhanced by Personalized Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation over Parieto-Hippocampal Network among Patients at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Trial
- Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience.Nature protocols · 2026Review
- Clinical development and guiding theory of transcranial magnetic stimulation: a literature review.Annals of medicine · 2025Review
- Closed-loop control of theta oscillations enhances human hippocampal network connectivity.Nature communications · 2025Article
- A case for using methods from natural science in advancing the field of cognitive neuroscience.Theory & psychology · 2024Article
- Age-related enhancement of the association between episodic memory and gray matter volume in medial temporal and frontal lobes.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2024Article
- Causally Probing the Role of the Hippocampus in Fear Discrimination: A Precision Functional Mapping-Guided, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study in Participants With Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2024Article
- Midbrain signaling of identity prediction errors depends on orbitofrontal cortex networks.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Disruption of Anterior Temporal Lobe Reduces Distortions in Memory From Category Knowledge.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2023Article
- Anatomical and Functional Connectivity of Critical Deep Brain Structures and Their Potential Clinical Application in Brain Stimulation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Computationally Informed Interventions for Targeting Compulsive Behaviors.Biological psychiatry · 2023Review
- Causally mapping human threat extinction relevant circuits with depolarizing brain stimulation methods.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
- Development of naringenin-Journal of enzyme inhibition and medicinal chemistry · 2022Article
- Electrophysiological foundations of the human default-mode network revealed by intracranial-EEG recordings during resting-state and cognition.NeuroImage · 2022Article
- Stimulation of distinct parietal locations differentiates frontal versus hippocampal network involvement in memory formation.Current research in neurobiology · 2022Article
- Evidence from theta-burst stimulation that age-related de-differentiation of the hippocampal network is functional for episodic memory.Neurobiology of aging · 2022Article
- Functional Connectivity during Encoding Predicts Individual Differences in Long-Term Memory.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2021Article
- Stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex with slow rTMS enhances verbal memory formation.PLoS biology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Episodic memory depends on the hippocampus and its coordination with a distributed network of interconnected brain areas. Recent findings indicate that the function of this network can be altered using network-targeted transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). These stimulation experiments have identified increases in episodic memory and the network-wide coordination it requires. Network-target stimulation differs from the dominant framework for TMS experiments, in which stimulation has been considered as a focal virtual lesion. We offer a conceptual framework for important distinctions between network-wide and focal effects of stimulation on episodic memory and discuss factors that may influence the quality and quantity of stimulation effects. Findings from these experiments indicate that many properties of episodic memory can be effectively studied at the network level via noninvasive stimulation.
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