ArticleNeural plasticity2014
Comparing the efficacy of excitatory transcranial stimulation methods measuring motor evoked potentials.
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- Differing effectiveness of transcranial random noise stimulation and transcranial direct current stimulation for enhancing working memory in healthy individuals: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2024Trial
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- Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation for the Acute Treatment of Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2020Trial
- Effect of noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation in community-dwelling elderly people: a randomised controlled trial.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2018Trial
- Comparing the effect of transcranial random noise stimulation and transcranial direct current stimulation over the motor cortex on motor performance in men vs. women: a randomized controlled crossover study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Stability of transcranial magnetic stimulation electroencephalogram evoked potentials in pediatric epilepsy.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Advances in non-invasive brain stimulation: enhancing sports performance function and insights into exercise science.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- The effect of emotion intensity on time perception: a study with transcranial random noise stimulation.Experimental brain research · 2023Article
- Transcranial high-frequency random noise stimulation does not modulate Nogo N2 and Go/Nogo reaction times in somatosensory and auditory modalities.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Single sessions of transcranial direct current stimulation and transcranial random noise stimulation exert no effect on sleepiness in patients with narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Top-down and bottom-up stimulation techniques combined with action observation treatment in stroke rehabilitation: a perspective.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Review
- Towards causal mechanisms of consciousness through focused transcranial brain stimulation.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2023Review
- High-Frequency Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation for Auditory Hallucinations of Schizophrenia: A Case Series.Biomedicines · 2022Article
- Inter-Individual Variability in tDCS Effects: A Narrative Review on the Contribution of Stable, Variable, and Contextual Factors.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Novel Non-invasive Transcranial Electrical Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Review
- No evidence of improvements in inhibitory control with tRNS.Neuroimage. Reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
The common aim of transcranial stimulation methods is the induction or alterations of cortical excitability in a controlled way. Significant effects of each individual stimulation method have been published; however, conclusive direct comparisons of many of these methods are rare. The aim of the present study was to compare the efficacy of three widely applied stimulation methods inducing excitability enhancement in the motor cortex: 1 mA anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (atDCS), intermittent theta burst stimulation (iTBS), and 1 mA transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) within one subject group. The effect of each stimulation condition was quantified by evaluating motor-evoked-potential amplitudes (MEPs) in a fixed time sequence after stimulation. The analyses confirmed a significant enhancement of the M1 excitability caused by all three types of active stimulations compared to sham stimulation. There was no significant difference between the types of active stimulations, although the time course of the excitatory effects slightly differed. Among the stimulation methods, tRNS resulted in the strongest and atDCS significantly longest MEP increase compared to sham. Different time courses of the applied stimulation methods suggest different underlying mechanisms of action. Better understanding may be useful for better targeting of different transcranial stimulation techniques.
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