Disruption and rescue of interareal theta phase coupling and adaptive behavior.

ABSTRACT: Rescuing executive functions in people with neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders has been a major goal of psychology and neuroscience for decades. Innovative computer-training regimes for executive functions have made tremendous inroads, yet the positive effects of training have not always translated into improved cognitive functioning and often take many days to emerge. In the present study, we asked whether it was possible to immediately change components of executive function by directly manipulating neural activity using a stimulation technology called high-definition transcranial alternating current stimulation (HD-tACS). Twenty minutes of inphase stimulation over medial frontal cortex (MFC) and right lateral prefrontal cortex (lPFC) synchronized theta (∼6 Hz) rhythms between t

SUBMITTER: Reinhart RMG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5664527 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature