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Title: Memory and Cognition-Related Neuroplasticity Enhancement by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Rodents: A Systematic Review
Authors: Cavaleiro, Carla 
Martins, João 
Gonçalves, Joana 
Castelo-Branco, Miguel 
Issue Date: 2020
Publisher: Hindawi
Project: CENTRO-01-0145-FEDER-000016 
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UID/NEU/04539/2013/PT 
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/731827/EU/Transcranial brain stimulation as innovative therapy for chronic pediatric neuropsychiatric disorder – STIPED 
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - SAICTPAC/0010/2015 
Serial title, monograph or event: Neural Plasticity
Volume: 2020
Abstract: Brain stimulation techniques, including transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), were identified as promising therapeutic tools to modulate synaptic plasticity abnormalities and minimize memory and learning deficits in many neuropsychiatric diseases. Here, we revised the effect of tDCS on the modulation of neuroplasticity and cognition in several animal disease models of brain diseases affecting plasticity and cognition. Studies included in this review were searched following the terms ("transcranial direct current stimulation") AND (mice OR mouse OR animal) and according to the PRISMA statement requirements. Overall, the studies collected suggest that tDCS was able to modulate brain plasticity due to synaptic modifications within the stimulated area. Changes in plasticity-related mechanisms were achieved through induction of long-term potentiation (LTP) and upregulation of neuroplasticity-related proteins, such as c-fos, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), or N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors (NMDARs). Taken into account all revised studies, tDCS is a safe, easy, and noninvasive brain stimulation technique, therapeutically reliable, and with promising potential to promote cognitive enhancement and neuroplasticity. Since the use of tDCS has increased as a novel therapeutic approach in humans, animal studies are important to better understand its mechanisms as well as to help improve the stimulation protocols and their potential role in different neuropathologies.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/106509
ISSN: 2090-5904
1687-5443
DOI: 10.1155/2020/4795267
Rights: openAccess
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