Enhancing Frontal Lobes Plasticity in Mild Cognitive Impairment

On each of the 10 days of the intervention, participants will receive PAS (or PAS-C) to the left DLPFC by delivering peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) to the right median nerve and TMS to the left DLPFC, followed immediately by PAS (or PAS-C) to the right DLPFC by delivering PNS to the left median nerve and TMS to the right DLPFC. PAS-C differs from PAS only by including an interstimulus interval of 100 ms between PNS and TMS to the DLPFC, compared to 25 ms in the active PAS condition. Using 100 ms interval, we have previously demonstrated that PAS-C does not induce PAS-LTP in the DLPFC. If a participant cannot attend one or more of the 10 consecutive PAS or PAS-C treatment sessions, we will allow up to four extra treatment days to make up for missed sessions.