Consensus: Can transcranial direct current stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation enhance motor learning and memory formation?

Brain Stimulation

Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD¹  Edwin M. Robertson, MD, D. Phil¹  Eric M. Wassermann, MD²  Hartwig R. Siebner, MD, PhD³  Walter Paulus, MD⁴  Jan Born, PhD⁵  Lisa Marshall, PhD⁵  Ulf Ziemann, MD⁶  Friedhelm Hummel, MD⁷  Christian Gerloff, MD⁷  Agnes Floel, MD⁸  Pablo A. Celnik, MD⁹  Janine Reis, MD^1,10  Leonardo G. Cohen, MD^1,10  Joseph Classen, MD^1,11  John Rothwell, PhD^1,12  John W. Krakauer, MD^1,13 

[1] Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts;Brain Stimulation Unit, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland;Brain mapping laboratory, Department of Neurology, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany;Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany;Department of Neurology and Clinical Neuroendocrinology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany;Department of Neurology, Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany;Department of Neurology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany;Department of Neurology, University of Münster and IZKF Münster, Münster, Germany;Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland;Human Cortical Physiology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland;Human Cortical Physiology and Motor Control Laboratory, Department of Neurology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany;Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom;Motor Performance Laboratory, Dept. of Neurology, Columbia University, New York, New York;

关键词: transcranial magnetic stimulation;    transcranial direct current stimulation;    stroke;    learning;    motor;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

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