Effects of five daily high-frequency rTMS on Stroop task performance in aging individuals
- Authors
- Kim, Sang Hee; Han, Hyun Jung; Ahn, Hyeon Min; Kim, Shin Ah; Kim, Sang Eun
- Issue Date
- Dec-2012
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
- Keywords
- Aging; Inhibitory; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; rTMS; Stroop
- Citation
- NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH, v.74, no.3-4, pp.256 - 260
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
- Volume
- 74
- Number
- 3-4
- Start Page
- 256
- End Page
- 260
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/106792
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.neures.2012.08.008
- ISSN
- 0168-0102
- Abstract
- Previous evidence suggests that high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (HF-rTMS) improves inhibitory control in healthy young adults. Little is known as to whether HF-rTMS would show similar facilitation effects in older adults undergoing normal aging. We recruited 16 healthy elderly adults and randomly assigned them to either a 10 Hz HF-rTMS or sham stimulation group. Five daily stimulation sessions over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex were given to each participant. Changes in inhibitory control were assessed using a modified Stroop task. Participants performed the Stroop task twice, 1 day before and after the five daily stimulations. We found that participants in the active HF-rTMS stimulation group showed improved performance in reaction time during incongruent trials (i.e. those with distracting information) after HF-rTMS treatment compared with pre-treatment trials. To the best of our knowledge, this study is one of the first studies demonstrating that daily HF-rTMS can improve attentional control in normally aging individuals. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd and the Japan Neuroscience Society. All rights reserved.
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