Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Low frequency transcranial electrical stimulation does not entrain sleep rhythms measured by human intracranial recordings

  • Belen Lafon,
  • Simon Henin,
  • Yu Huang,
  • Daniel Friedman,
  • Lucia Melloni,
  • Thomas Thesen,
  • Werner Doyle,
  • György Buzsáki,
  • Orrin Devinsky,
  • Lucas C. Parra,
  • Anli A. Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01045-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) has been proposed to enhance neural rhythms supporting memory. Here, the authors leverage human intracranial recordings to show that low-frequency tACS does not entrain key rhythms in non-REM sleep or resting wakefulness.