ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2016
tDCS of the Cerebellum: Where Do We Stand in 2016? Technical Issues and Critical Review of the Literature.
Review in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 69 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Modulation of the Activity in the Cerebellum With Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Autistic Participants
Cortical Excitability Modulation With Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Fibromyalgia: a Randomized Clinical Trial
Who cites it
69 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Cerebellar tDCS and pain modulation: a critical integrative and systematic review.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Cerebellar stimulation in schizophrenia: A systematic review of the evidence and an overview of the methods.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- The posterior crus II cerebellum is specialized for social mentalizing and emotional self-experiences: a meta-analysis.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2020Pooled it
- Cerebral Cortical Activity Following Non-invasive Cerebellar Stimulation-a Systematic Review of Combined TMS and EEG Studies.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2020Pooled it
- The Effect of Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Motor Learning: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Pooled it
- Targeting the Human Cerebellum with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Modulate Behavior: a Meta-Analysis.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2018Pooled it
- Inhibitory Circuits of the Sensorimotor Network are Not Modulated By Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Isolated Cervical Dystonia.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2026Trial
- Cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation improves quality of life in individuals with chronic poststroke aphasia.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- The Impact of Bilateral Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Balance Control in Healthy Young Adults.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Trial
- Differential Effects of Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation with Gait Training on Functional Mobility, Balance, and Ataxia Symptoms.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Trial
- Suppression of Motor Sequence Learning and Execution Through Anodal Cerebellar Transcranial Electrical Stimulation.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2023Trial
- Frontopolar multifocal transcranial direct current stimulation reduces conditioned fear reactivity during extinction training: A pilot randomized controlled trial.Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2023Trial
- Modulating mental state recognition by anodal tDCS over the cerebellum.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3: a Randomized, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Trial.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2022Trial
- Polarity-dependent cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation modulates online functions of the alerting attention network.Neurosciences (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) · 2021Trial
- Online polarity-dependent effects of cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation on motor speed and fine manual dexterity. A randomized controlled trial.Saudi medical journal · 2020Trial
- White matter predictors of cerebellar tDCS treatment effects in aphasia rehabilitation.Frontiers in neurologyTrial
- Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Induces a Predominant Motor Rather than Perceptive Contribution to Emotion Facial Expression Processing.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Exploring the Role of the Cerebellum in Pain Perception: A Narrative Review.Pain and therapy · 2025Review
- Investigating the causal role of motor brain areas in rhythm reproduction: a transcranial direct current stimulation study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) is an up-and-coming electrical neurostimulation technique increasingly used both in healthy subjects and in selected groups of patients. Due to the high density of neurons in the cerebellum, its peculiar anatomical organization with the cortex lying superficially below the skull and its diffuse connections with motor and associative areas of the cerebrum, the cerebellum is becoming a major target for neuromodulation of the cerebellocerebral networks. We discuss the recent studies based on cerebellar tDCS with a focus on the numerous technical and open issues which remain to be solved. Our current knowledge of the physiological impacts of tDCS on cerebellar circuitry is criticized. We provide a comparison with transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS), another promising transcranial electrical neurostimulation technique. Although both tDCS and tACS are becoming established techniques to modulate the cerebellocerebral networks, it is surprising that their impacts on cerebellar disorders remains unclear. A major reason is that the literature lacks large trials with a double-blind, sham-controlled, and cross-over experimental design in cerebellar patients.
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