ReviewBrain sciences2018
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for Depression during Pregnancy: Scientific Evidence and What Is Being Said in the Media-A Systematic Review.
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Effects of Adding Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation to Executive Function Training for Schizophrenia-spectrum Disorders - a Randomized Control Trial
Real-world Data Collection and Real-world Evidence Clinical Demonstration Study of tDCS for the Treatment of Depression in Perinatal Women
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Progression in Post-Stroke Depression Treatment: A Systematic Review.Alpha psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
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- Clinical and Behavioral Outcomes During 4 Weeks of Home-Based Self-Administered Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Perinatal Women With Depressive Symptoms: Open-Label Exploratory Pilot Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Home-Based Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Depression: From Feasibility to Clinical Implementation.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2026Review
- Perinatal Depression and the Role of Synaptic Plasticity in Its Pathogenesis and Treatment.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Fibromyalgia in Pregnancy: Neuro-Endocrine Fluctuations Provide Insight into Pathophysiology and Neuromodulation Treatment.Biomedicines · 2023Article
- Efficacy and Safety of Transcranial Electric Stimulation during the Perinatal Period: A Systematic Literature Review and Three Case Reports.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) for Depression during Pregnancy: Results from an Open-Label Pilot Study.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Transcranial direct current stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: patient selection and perspectives.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2019Article
- A pilot study on effect of adjunctive transcranial direct current stimulation on symptom domains of depression in patients with depressive disorder.Industrial psychiatry journalArticle
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Abstract
Major depression is the most frequent morbidity in pregnancy. The first-line therapies, psychopharmacologic treatment and psychotherapy, are either insufficient or may cause severe or teratogenic adverse events. As a result of its local limitation to the patient's brain, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) could potentially be an ideal treatment for pregnant women with depression. A literature search was conducted in medical databases, globally published newspapers, search engines, and clinical trial registers to collect all articles on tDCS for the treatment of depression during pregnancy. The aim of this review was to investigate the scientific evidence of tDCS use for depression during pregnancy and to compare these results with the textual and emotional perception in the media as interventions during pregnancy are under particular surveillance. We detected 13 medical articles dealing with tDCS for depression in pregnancy. Overall, the scientific evidence as well as articles in the media for tDCS in pregnancy are sparse, but promising. Further studies are required in this specifically vulnerable population of pregnant women to generate evidence. It is likely that public interest will increase when the results of a pilot study in Canada are published.
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