ArticleJournal of cognitive neuroscience2022
Effects of Multisession Prefrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Long-term Memory and Working Memory in Older Adults.
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- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) on cognitive dysfunction in patients with multiple sclerosis.Neurodegenerative disease management · 2026Pooled it
- Training-induced cognitive coupling emerges under sham but not active transcranial electrical stimulation in older adults: a triple-blind, randomized, sham-controlled study.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Trial
- Multisession transcranial direct current stimulation and aerobic exercise synergistically improve food craving symptoms, impulsivity, and cognitive flexibility in women with overweight and obesity: a randomized controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Trial
- Supporting Visual Working Memory in Healthy Aging: A Review of Current Interventions and Perspectives on Future Approaches.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Boosting brainpower in ageing: Task-specific and transfer effects of tDCS-enhanced working memory training.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Efficacy of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation in Primary Progressive Aphasia Treatment: A Review.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Feasibility of home-based transcranial direct current stimulation combined with personalized word retrieval for improving naming in primary progressive aphasia.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- HD-tDCS to the lateral occipital complex improves haptic object recognition.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- Cognitive reserve predicts episodic memory enhancement induced by transcranial direct current stimulation in healthy older adults.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- A classification-based generative approach to selective targeting of global slow oscillations during sleep.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Meta-modeling the effects of anodal left prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation on working memory performance.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Differential effects of remotely supervised transcranial direct current stimulation on recognition memory depending on task order.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Older adults with lower working memory capacity benefit from transcranial direct current stimulation when combined with working memory training: A preliminary study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a noninvasive form of electrical brain stimulation popularly used to augment the effects of working memory (WM) training. Although success has been mixed, some studies report enhancements in WM performance persisting days, weeks, or even months that are actually more reminiscent of consolidation effects typically observed in the long-term memory (LTM) domain, rather than WM improvements per se. Although tDCS has been often reported to enhance both WM and LTM, these effects have never been directly compared within the same study. However, given their considerable neural and behavioral overlap, this is a timely comparison to make. This study reports results from a multisession intervention in older adults comparing active and sham tDCS over the left dorsolateral pFC during training on both an n-back WM task and a word learning LTM task. We found strong and robust effects on LTM, but mixed effects on WM that only emerged for those with lower baseline ability. Importantly, mediation analyses showed an indirect effect of tDCS on WM that was mediated by improvements in consolidation. We conclude that tDCS over the left dorsolateral pFC can be used as an effective intervention to foster long-term learning and memory consolidation in aging, which can manifest in performance improvements across multiple memory domains.
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