The Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Over Prefrontal Cortex, Temporal Lobe and Cerebellar on Verbal Working Memory: A Systematic Review

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10.2991/assehr.k.210617.050How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, verbal working memory, prefrontal cortex, temporal lobe, cerebellar

Abstract

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a safe and non-invasive brain stimulation technique, which has been widely used to draw causal links between brain regions and specific behaviours during the past decades. By using TMS, recent studies have demonstrated that prefrontal cortex, temporal lobe and cerebellar are taking part in processing verbal working memory. However, inconsistent results were reported from such experiments. The current study aimed to perform a systematic review on the use of TMS exploring the involvements of prefrontal cortex, temporal lobe and cerebellar in verbal working memory. The databases we used were Web of Science, PubMed and Google Scholar. We searched for the studies that applied TMS over the prefrontal cortex, temporal lobe or cerebellar published from 2000 January. In total, ten studies were included. Result showed that temporal disruption of prefrontal or temporal cortex induced by low-frequency rTMS significantly impaired verbal working memory performance, while high-frequency rTMS applied over dlPFC. Significantly improved verbal working memory performance. The studies on cerebellar were limited, so only one study was included. It showed that participants made more error responses after theta burst stimulation. Overall, these results indicated that the engagement of prefrontal cortex, temporal lobe and cerebellar was indispensable to verbal WM performance. However, the results in cerebellar must be interpreted cautiously given limited results and uncomfortable feeling of participants.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Weiqi Li
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TI  - The Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Over Prefrontal Cortex, Temporal Lobe and Cerebellar on Verbal Working Memory: A Systematic Review
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 2nd International Conference on Mental Health and Humanities Education (ICMHHE 2021）
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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