Consensus: "Can TDCS and TMS Enhance Motor Learning and Memory Formation?"

Overview

Journal Brain Stimul

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Neurology

Date 2009 Oct 6

PMID 19802336

Citations 56

Authors

Janine Reis

Edwin Robertson

John W Krakauer

John Rothwell

Lisa Marshall

Christian Gerloff

Eric Wassermann

Alvaro Pascual-Leone

Friedhelm Hummel

Pablo A Celnik

Joseph Classen

Agnes Floel

Ulf Ziemann

Walter Paulus

Hartwig R Siebner

Jan Born

Leonardo G Cohen

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Abstract

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 paper 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 neurological and psychiatric disorders.

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