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ReviewNeuron2020

Modulation of Human Memory by Deep Brain Stimulation of the Entorhinal-Hippocampal Circuitry.

Emily A Mankin, Itzhak Fried

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Review in Neuron, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
54citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.5field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

54 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 105 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Emily A MankinDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Itzhak FriedDepartment of Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; Tel Aviv Medical Center and Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. Electronic address: ifried@mednet.ucla.edu.
Neurobehavioral Systems · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

Mechanisms of Memory Enhancement by Deep Brain Stimulation in HumansR01NS084017 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI FRIED, ITZHAK · 2013 to 2022
$4.7M
Memory consolidation during sleep studied by direct neuronal recording and stimulation inside human brainU01NS108930 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI FRIED, ITZHAK · 2018 to 2019
$1.9M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS084017NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS108930
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurological disorders affecting human memory present a major scientific, medical, and societal challenge. Direct or indirect deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the entorhinal-hippocampal system, the brain's major memory hub, has been studied in people with epilepsy or Alzheimer's disease, intending to enhance memory performance or slow memory decline. Variability in the spatiotemporal parameters of stimulation employed to date notwithstanding, it is likely that future DBS for memory will employ closed-loop, nuanced approaches that are synergistic with native physiological processes. The potential for editing human memory-decoding, enhancing, incepting, or deleting specific memories-suggests exciting therapeutic possibilities but also raises considerable ethical concerns.

Indexed as

Deep Brain StimulationAlzheimer DiseaseDementiaEntorhinal CortexHippocampusHumansMemoryMemory DisordersNerve Netdeep brain stimulationentorhinal cortexhippocampusmemoryneuromodulation

Identifiers

PMID32325058
PMCPMC7347298
OpenAlexW3018925064

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Registered trials

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