ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2017
Impact of transcranial direct current stimulation on attentional bias for threat: a proof-of-concept study among individuals with social anxiety disorder.
Article in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06900959 (Transcranial Static Field Stimulation), which is not on this map. Cited by 44 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Transcranial Static Field Stimulation (tSMS) and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for the Treatment of Neurological Symptoms
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A neuroimaging meta-analysis on social impression formation of stable characteristics.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2026Pooled it
- Effectiveness of noninvasive brain stimulation in the treatment of anxiety disorders: a meta-analysis of sham or behaviour-controlled studies.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPNPooled it
- The effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on subjective, autonomic and neuropsychological response in the 7.5% COJournal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2026Trial
- Reducing attention bias toward negative emotional stimuli with transcranial random noise stimulation: a randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled, crossover study.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Anxiety During Laparoscopic Colorectal Cancer Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- Brain structure changes induced by attention bias modification training.Biological psychology · 2019Trial
- Effect of Prefrontal Cortex Stimulation on Regulation of Amygdala Response to Threat in Individuals With Trait Anxiety: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA psychiatry · 2019Trial
- A causal role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in regulating anticipated regret and risk behaviors in trait anxiety.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Increased Neuroplasticity in Frontal Cortex to Reduce Compulsive Behavior: A Preclinical tDCS Study in Male Rats.Molecular neurobiology · 2025Article
- Genetic Vulnerability to Social Anxiety Disorder.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- Transcranial Electrical Stimulation: Clinical Implication and Practice for Treatment of Psychiatric Illness.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Review
- Tackling social anxiety with targeted brain stimulation: investigating the effects of transcranial static magnetic field stimulation on self-focused attention.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Pre-clinical indications of brain stimulation treatments for non-affective psychiatric disorders, a status update.Translational psychiatry · 2023Review
- Trait-related neural basis of attentional bias to emotions: a tDCS study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
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- Combinatorial approaches for treating neuropsychiatric social impairment.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Wireless Force-Inducing Neuronal Stimulation Mediated by High Magnetic Moment Microdiscs.Advanced healthcare materials · 2022Article
- Transcranial electric stimulation as a neural interface to gain insight on human brain functions: current knowledge and future perspective.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Review
- Transcranial Electrical Stimulation for Psychiatric Disorders in Adults: A Primer.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2022Review
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Abstract
Cognitive models posit that social anxiety disorder (SAD) is associated with and maintained by attentional bias (AB) for social threat. However, over the last years, it has been suggested that AB in SAD may result from a decreased activation of the left prefrontal cortex, and particularly of its dorsolateral part (dlPFC). Accordingly, a transient increase of neural activity within the left dlPFC via non-invasive brain stimulation decreases AB in non-anxious control participants. Yet, none of these studies focused on SAD. This is especially unfortunate as SAD constitutes the main target for which a genuine reduction of AB may be most appropriate. In this experiment, we sought to investigate the causal influence of left dlPFC neuromodulation on AB among 19 female individuals with a DSM-5 diagnosis of SAD. We adopted a double-blind within-subject protocol in which we delivered a single-session of anodal versus sham transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) over the left dlPFC during the completion of a probe discrimination task assessing AB. Consistent with our hypothesis, participants demonstrated a significant decrease in AB during the anodal tDCS over the left DLPFC relative to the sham stimulation. These findings value tDCS as an innovative procedure to gain new insight into the underlying mechanisms of SAD.
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