Noninvasive cortical stimulation enhances motor skill acquisition over multiple days through an effect on consolidation

By Janine Reis, Heidi M. Schambra, Leonardo G. Cohen, Ethan R. Buch, B. Fritsch, E. Zarahn, Pablo A. Celnik, John W. Krakauer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Agnes Flöel
2. Michael A. Nitsche
3. Leonardo G. Cohen
4. Alvaro Pascual-Leone
5. Walter Paulus
6. Felipe Fregni
7. C. J. Stagg
8. Simon B. Eickhoff

In Neurology

1. Agnes Flöel
2. Michael A. Nitsche
3. Leonardo G. Cohen
4. Walter Paulus
5. Alvaro Pascual-Leone
6. Felipe Fregni
7. C. J. Stagg
8. Ulf Ziemann

Citations in the corpus

• Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on human regional cerebral blood flow (2011, background): “, 2003a, 2003b, 2003c), sensorimotor skills (Reis et al., 2009; Vines et al., 2006a, 2006b, 2008a, 2008b), visuomotor coordination (Antal et al.”
• Harnessing neuroplasticity for clinical applications (2011, positive): “Note too that early brain injury can impair subsequent plasticity (Failor et al., 2010).”
• Battery powered thought: Enhancement of attention, learning, and memory in healthy adults using transcranial direct current stimulation (2014, positive): “Stimulation parameters were similar between these two studies, but stimulus durationwas longer (30 vs. 20 min) and sample sizewas smaller in the Galea and Celnik (2009) study (N = 9) compared to the study by Reis et al. (2009) (N = 24).”
• A technical guide to tDCS, and related non-invasive brain stimulation tools (2015, background): “However, there is evidence that modulatory effects accumulate when tDCS is applied during multiple, consecutive sessions (Reis et al., 2009; Alonzo et al., 2012; Waters-Metenier et al., 2014), and that tDCS”
• Principles of sensorimotor learning (2011, background): “A reduction in the variability for a given movement speed can be considered the hallmark of skill learning 63 .”
• tDCS-enhanced motor and cognitive function in neurological diseases (2014, positive): “Therefore, increasing excitability with brain stimulation, whether directly or indirectly, may provide a means of inducing a physiological state that supports acquiring novel skills (Floel and Cohen, 2010), or may even facilitate off-line learning (Reis et al., 2009).”
• Direct current stimulation promotes BDNF-dependent synaptic plasticity: Potential implications for motor learning (2010, positive): “was calculated in each subject based on the bivariate observation of movement time and error rate using a mathematical model described previously (Reis et al., 2009).”
• A quantitative meta-analysis and review of motor learning in the human brain (2013, methodology): “Areas identified as being critical to motor learning could then be targeted using neurostimulation techniques, which have been used to modulate the function of brain structures in order to augment skill acquisition (Galea et al., 2011; Reis et al., 2009).”
• Evidence-based guidelines on the therapeutic use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). (2017, result): “This approach is supported by data obtained in healthy subjects (Nitsche et al., 2003c; Reis et al., 2009) and it was first applied to promote motor recovery in stroke patients (Hummel et al.”
• Dissociating the roles of the cerebellum and motor cortex during adaptive learning: the motor cortex retains what the cerebellum learns. (2011, background): “The results from M1 tDCS are in accordance with previous reports suggesting a role of this area in the retention of new motor memories (Muellbacher et al. 2002; Richardson et al. 2006; Hadipour-Niktarash et al. 2007; Galea and Celnik 2009; Hunter et al. 2009; Reis et al. 2009).”
• Neuroplasticity subserving motor skill learning (2011, positive): “task, namely enhancement of offline learning, supports the existence of relatively different neuronal networks involved in the two processes (Reis et al., 2009).”
• Quantitative Review Finds No Evidence of Cognitive Effects in Healthy Populations From Single-session Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS). (2015, neutral): “[109,110]).”