The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is a crucial brain region for inhibitory control, an
executive function essential for behavioral self-regulation. Recently, inhibitory control has …

New antidepressants and individualized approaches to treatment, matching specific
therapies to individual patients, are urgently needed. For this, a better understanding of …

There is a plethora of current and emerging antidepressant therapies in the psychiatric
armamentarium for the treatment of major depressive disorder. Noninvasive …

Background Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive brain
stimulation technique, which has yielded promising results in treating major depressive …

This chapter first provides an overview of tDCS use in psychiatry discussing some appealing
characteristics for its use such as ease of use, portability, low cost, absence of serious …

Working memory (WM) is a limited-capacity cognitive system encompassing the encoding,
short-term maintenance, and manipulation of mental representations related to goal …

When the healthy human brain processes information with affective content, it typically does
so in a positively biased way; that is, it exhibits a tendency to process positive (as opposed …