Max Kaiser, Yuejuan Wang, Sanne Ten Oever, Felix Duecker, Alexander T Sack, Vincent van de Ven
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Non-invasive indirect hippocampal-targeted stimulation is of broad scientific and clinical interest. Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) is appealing because it allows oscillatory stimulation to study hippocampal theta (3-8 Hz) activity. We found that tACS administered during functional magnetic resonance imaging yielded a frequency-, mental state- and topologically-specific effect of theta stimulation (but not other frequencies) enhancing right (but not left) hippocampal-cortical connectivity during resting blocks but not during task blocks. Control analyses showed that this effect was not due to possible stimulation-induced changes in signal quality or head movement. Our findings are promising for targeted network modulations of deep brain structures for research and clinical intervention.
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