ArticleNeural plasticity2017
Cerebellar Cathodal Transcranial Direct Stimulation and Performance on a Verb Generation Task: A Replication Study.
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- Probing the linguistic cerebellum: a qualitative review of the effects of cerebellar neurostimulation on language processing.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Targeting the Human Cerebellum with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Modulate Behavior: a Meta-Analysis.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2018Pooled it
- Time Dependent Effects of Cerebellar tDCS on Cerebello-cortical Connectivity Networks in Young Adults.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2025Article
- Cerebellar Direct Current Stimulation Reveals the Causal Role of the Cerebellum in Temporal Prediction.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Article
- Cerebellar Neuromodulation Impacts Reading Fluency in Young Adults.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- A Brief History of Cerebellar Neurostimulation.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2022Review
- Investigating the brain regions involved in tDCS-Enhanced category learning using finite element modeling.Neuroimage. Reports · 2021Article
- The Polarity-Specific Nature of Single-Session High-definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to the Cerebellum and Prefrontal Cortex on Motor and Non-motor Task Performance.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2021Article
- A narrative review on non-invasive stimulation of the cerebellum in neurological diseases.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2021Review
- Single session high definition transcranial direct current stimulation to the cerebellum does not impact higher cognitive function.PloS one · 2019Article
- Non-invasive Cerebellar Stimulation: Moving Towards Clinical Applications for Cerebellar and Extra-Cerebellar Disorders.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2018Article
- Non-invasive Cerebellar Stimulation: a Promising Approach for Stroke Recovery?Cerebellum (London, England) · 2018Review
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Abstract
The role of the cerebellum in cognitive processing is increasingly recognized but still poorly understood. A recent study in this field applied cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (c-tDCS) to the right cerebellum to investigate the role of prefrontal-cerebellar loops in language aspects of cognition. Results showed that the improvement in participants' verbal response times on a verb generation task was facilitated immediately after cathodal c-tDCS, compared to anodal or sham c-tDCS. The primary aim of the present study is to replicate these findings and additionally to investigate possible longer term effects. A crossover within-subject design was used, comparing cathodal and sham c-tDCS. The experiment consisted of two visits with an interval of one week. Our results show no direct contribution of cathodal c-tDCS over the cerebellum to language task performance. However, one week later, the group receiving cathodal c-tDCS in the first visit show less improvement and increased variability in their verbal response times during the second visit, compared to the group receiving sham c-tDCS in the first visit. These findings suggest a potential negative effect of c-tDCS and warrant further investigation into long term effects of c-tDCS before undertaking clinical studies with poststroke patients with aphasia.
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