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ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2017

The Effect of Dual-Hemisphere Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Over the Parietal Operculum on Tactile Orientation Discrimination.

Shuhei Fujimoto, Satoshi Tanaka, Ilkka Laakso, Tomofumi Yamaguchi, Noriko Kon, Takeo Nakayama, Kunitsugu Kondo, Ryo Kitada

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Article in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Shuhei FujimotoTokyo Bay Rehabilitation HospitalChiba, Japan.
Satoshi TanakaLaboratory of Psychology, Hamamatsu University School of MedicineShizuoka, Japan.
Ilkka LaaksoDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Aalto UniversityEspoo, Finland.
Tomofumi YamaguchiDepartment of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University School of MedicineTokyo, Japan.
Noriko KonDepartment of Therapy, Kawakita Rehabilitation HospitalTokyo, Japan.
Takeo NakayamaDepartment of Public Health, Kyoto University Graduate School of MedicineKyoto, Japan.
Kunitsugu KondoTokyo Bay Rehabilitation HospitalChiba, Japan.
Ryo KitadaDivision of Psychology, School of Social Sciences (SSS), College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore, Singapore.

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Abstract

The parietal operculum (PO) often shows ipsilateral activation during tactile object perception in neuroimaging experiments. However, the relative contribution of the PO to tactile judgment remains unclear. Here, we examined the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over bilateral PO to test the relative contributions of the ipsilateral PO to tactile object processing. Ten healthy adults participated in this study, which had a double-blind, sham-controlled, cross-over design. Participants discriminated grating orientation during three tDCS and sham conditions. In the dual-hemisphere tDCS conditions, anodal and cathodal electrodes were placed over the left and right PO. In the uni-hemisphere tDCS condition, anodal and cathodal electrodes were applied over the left PO and contralateral orbit, respectively. In the tDCS and sham conditions, we applied 2 mA for 15 min and for 15 s, respectively. Computational models of electric fields (EFs) during tDCS indicated that the strongest electric fields were located in regions in and around the PO. Compared with the sham condition, dual-hemisphere tDCS improved the discrimination threshold of the index finger contralateral to the anodal electrode. Importantly, dual-hemisphere tDCS with the anodal electrode over the left PO yielded a decreased threshold in the right finger compared with the uni-hemisphere tDCS condition. These results suggest that the ipsilateral PO inhibits tactile processing of grating orientation, indicating interhemispheric inhibition (IHI) of the PO.

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cortical plasticityinter-hemispheric inhibition (IHI)somatosensory cortextactiletranscranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

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PMCPMC5611440

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