Journal
BRAIN STIMULATION
Volume 1, Issue 4, Pages 363-369Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2008.08.001
Keywords
transcranial magnetic stimulation; transcranial direct current stimulation; stroke; learning; motor
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- Intramural NIH HHS [Z01 NS003030-01, Z01 NS002978-09] Funding Source: Medline
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Noninvasive brain stimulation has developed as a promising tool for cognitive neuroscientists. Transcranial magnetic (TMS) and direct current (tDCS) stimulation allow researchers to purposefully enhance or decrease excitability in focal areas of the brain. The purpose of this article is to review information on the use of TMS and tDCS as research tools to facilitate motor memory formation, motor performance, and motor learning in healthy Volunteers. Studies implemented so far have mostly focused on the ability of TMS and tDCS to elicit relatively short-lasting motor improvements and the mechanisms Underlying these changes have been only partially investigated. Despite limitations. including the scarcity of data, work that has been already accomplished raises the exciting hypothesis that currently available noninvasive transcranial stimulation techniques could modulate motor learning and memory formation in healthy humans and potentially in patients with neurologic and psychiatric disorders. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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