Brain stimulation improves associative memory in an individual with amnestic mild cognitive impairment
- 1 June 2012
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Neurocase
- Vol. 18 (3), 217-223
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2011.588176
Abstract
In patients with cognitive deficits, brain stimulation has been shown to restore cognition ( Miniussi et al., 2008 Miniussi, C. , Cappa, S. F. , Cohen, L. G. , Floel, A. , Fregni, F. Nitsche, M. A. 2008. Efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation/transcranial direct current stimulation in cognitive neurorehabilitation. Brain Stimulation, 1: 326–336. [Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] [Google Scholar] , Brain Stimulation, 1, 326). The aim of this study was to assess whether repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) could improve memory performance in an individual with amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI). Stimulation of the left parietal cortex increased accuracy in an association memory task, and this improvement was still significant 24 weeks after stimulation began. These findings indicate that rTMS to the left parietal cortex improved memory performance in aMCI.Keywords
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