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ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2018

Non-invasive Brain Stimulation: A Paradigm Shift in Understanding Brain Oscillations.

Johannes Vosskuhl, Daniel Strüber, Christoph S Herrmann

2 registry-linked trialsOpen access · goldAbstract readReview
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Review in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2018. 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 118 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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118citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
9.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03062553 nawithdrawnnot on this mapstarted 2019, after this paper: background citation

Enhancement of Treatment of Delusions in Schizophrenia Through Neuromodulation

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of British ColumbiaRan2019 to 2020Enrolled0ConditionsSchizophrenia, Psychosis, DelusionsArmsMetacognitive Training (MCT), Sham/MCT, transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS)
NCT03805854 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2019, after this paper: background citation

Modulating Pain Using Transcranial Alternating Stimulation (tACS) in Healthy Human Subjects

TypeinterventionalSponsorTechnical University of MunichRan2019 to 2019Enrolled39ConditionsExperimental Pain in Healthy Human SubjectsArms10 Hz tACS of the bilateral somatosensory cortex, 10 Hz tACS of the prefrontal cortex, 80 Hz tACS of the bilateral somatosensory cortex, 80 Hz tACS of the prefrontal cortex, Sham stimulation of the bilateral somatosensory cortex
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

118 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 230 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. Cutaneous Alternating Current Stimulation Can Cause a Phasic Modulation of Speech Perception.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  16. Medial Frontal Theta Reduction Impairs Rule Switching via Prediction Error.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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58 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Johannes VosskuhlExperimental Psychology Lab, Center for Excellence "Hearing4all," European Medical School, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
Daniel StrüberExperimental Psychology Lab, Center for Excellence "Hearing4all," European Medical School, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
Christoph S HerrmannExperimental Psychology Lab, Center for Excellence "Hearing4all," European Medical School, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
Hearing4all · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cognitive neuroscience set out to understand the neural mechanisms underlying cognition. One central question is how oscillatory brain activity relates to cognitive processes. Up to now, most of the evidence supporting this relationship was correlative in nature. This situation changed dramatically with the recent development of non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques, which open up new vistas for neuroscience by allowing researchers for the first time to validate their correlational theories by manipulating brain functioning directly. In this review, we focus on transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), an electrical brain stimulation method that applies sinusoidal currents to the intact scalp of human individuals to directly interfere with ongoing brain oscillations. We outline how tACS can impact human brain oscillations by employing different levels of observation from non-invasive tACS application in healthy volunteers and intracranial recordings in patients to animal studies demonstrating the effectiveness of alternating electric fields on neurons

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brain oscillationscausalitymechanisms of tACSnon-invasive brain stimulationtranscranial alternating current stimulation

Identifiers

PMID29887799
PMCPMC5980979
OpenAlexW2799400942

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