Brain Stimulation Improves Cognitive Control by Modulating Medial-frontal Activity and PreSMA-vmPFC Functional Connectivity

Overview

Journal Hum Brain Mapp

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Neurology

Date 2015 Aug 8

PMID 26248582

Citations 29

Authors

Jiaxin Yu

Philip Tseng

Daisy L Hung

Shih-Wei Wu

Chi-Hung Juan

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Abstract

Previous research has demonstrated that brain stimulation can improve inhibitory control. However, the neural mechanisms underlying such artificially induced improvement remain unclear. In this study, by coupling anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (atDCS) with functional MRI, we found that atDCS over preSMA effectively improved stopping speed, which was associated with increased BOLD response in the preSMA and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC). Furthermore, such atDCS-induced BOLD increase in vmPFC was positively correlated with participants' improvement in stopping efficiency, and the functional connectivity between preSMA and vmPFC increased during successful stop. These results suggest that the rapid behavioral improvement from preSMA brain stimulation involves modulated medial-frontal activity and preSMA-vmPFC functional connectivity.

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