ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2022
Working Memory Training Coupled With Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Experiment.
Article in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05929872 (The Efficacy of Strategic Memory Training Coupled With Non-invasive Brain Stimulation Techniques in Healthy Aging Population and Subjective Cognitive Decline Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The Efficacy of Strategic Memory Training Coupled With Non-invasive Brain Stimulation Techniques in Healthy Aging Population and Subjective Cognitive Decline Patients: a Randomized-controlled Study
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- A meta-analysis of the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation combined with cognitive training on working memory in healthy older adults.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
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- Primary outcome from the augmenting cognitive training in older adults study (ACT): A tDCS and cognitive training randomized clinical trial.Brain stimulationTrial
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- Executive dysfunction as a transdiagnostic mechanism of psychopathology: a neurocognitive framework for diagnosis and intervention.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Diabetes: A Focused and Mechanistic Review of Symptom and Function Outcomes.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Modulatory effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on sensory gating in Fibromyalgia Syndrome.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Sensory stimulation enhances visual working memory capacity.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- A Novel Dual-Language Touch-Screen Intervention to Slow Down Cognitive Decline in Older Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Innovation in aging · 2024Article
- Meta-modeling the effects of anodal left prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation on working memory performance.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- The MEDITAGING study: protocol of a two-armed randomized controlled study to compare the effects of the mindfulness-based stress reduction program against a health promotion program in older migrants in Luxembourg.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Lasting enhancements in neural efficiency by multi-session transcranial direct current stimulation during working memory training.NPJ science of learning · 2023Article
- Editorial: Methods and protocols in brain stimulation.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Long-term effects of repeated multitarget high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation combined with cognitive training on response inhibition gains.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Background: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been employed to boost working memory training (WMT) effects. Nevertheless, there is limited evidence on the efficacy of this combination in older adults. The present study is aimed to assess the delayed transfer effects of tDCS coupled with WMT in older adults in a 15-day follow-up. We explored if general cognitive ability, age, and educational level predicted the effects. Methods: In this single-center, double-blind randomized sham-controlled experiment, 54 older adults were randomized into three groups: anodal-tDCS (atDCS)+WMT, sham-tDCS (stDCS)+WMT, and double-sham. Five sessions of tDCS (2 mA) were applied over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Far transfer was measured by Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices (RAPM), while the near transfer effects were assessed through Digit Span. A frequentist linear mixed model (LMM) was complemented by a Bayesian approach in data analysis. Results: Working memory training improved dual Conclusion: This study will help to consolidate the incipient but auspicious field of cognitive training coupled with tDCS in healthy older adults. Our findings demonstrated that atDCS may potentialize WMT by promoting transfer effects in short-term memory and reasoning in older adults, which are observed especially at follow-up.
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