ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2018
Null Effects on Working Memory and Verbal Fluency Tasks When Applying Anodal tDCS to the Inferior Frontal Gyrus of Healthy Participants.
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- Effects and safety of transcranial direct current stimulation on multiple health outcomes: an umbrella review of randomized clinical trials.Molecular psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Attention neuroenhancement through tDCS or neurofeedback: a randomized, single-blind, controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Executive functions in patients with bilateral and unilateral peripheral vestibular dysfunction.Journal of neurology · 2024Article
- TDCS over PPC or DLPFC does not improve visual working memory capacity.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Lack of effects of online HD-tDCS over the left or right DLPFC in an associative memory and metamemory monitoring task.PloS one · 2024Article
- Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation for the Modulation of Aggressive Behavior-A Systematic Review of Randomized Sham-Controlled Studies.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Differential effects of remotely supervised transcranial direct current stimulation on recognition memory depending on task order.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Template MRI scans reliably approximate individual and group-level tES and TMS electric fields induced in motor and prefrontal circuits.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2023Article
- Treating lexical retrieval using letter fluency and tDCS in primary progressive aphasia: a single-case study.Aphasiology · 2022Article
- [Effects of parameters selection with transcranial direct current stimulation based on real head model].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2021Article
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) over the Intraparietal Sulcus Does Not Influence Working Memory Performance.Psychologica Belgica · 2021Article
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Abstract
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a technique used to modify cognition by modulating underlying cortical excitability via weak electric current applied through the scalp. Although many studies have reported positive effects with tDCS, a number of recent studies highlight that tDCS effects can be small and difficult to reproduce. This is especially the case when attempting to modulate performance using single applications of tDCS in healthy participants. Possible reasons may be that optimal stimulation parameters have yet to be identified, and that individual variation in cortical activity and/or level of ability confound outcomes. To address these points, we carried out a series of experiments in which we attempted to modulate performance in fluency and working memory probe tasks using stimulation parameters which have been associated with positive outcomes: we targeted the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) and compared performance when applying a 1.5 mA anodal current for 25 min and with sham stimulation. There is evidence that LIFG plays a role in these tasks and previous studies have found positive effects of stimulation. We also compared our experimental group (
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