Trial reportNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2019
The neuromodulatory effect of tDCS in patients affected by functional motor symptoms: an exploratory study.
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- Functional and Structural Brain Imaging Correlates of Treatment Response in Functional Movement Disorder.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2026Review
- Altered functional connectivity related to prepulse inhibition in functional movement disorder.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2026Article
- Preliminary Findings from a Mindfulness-Based Intervention in Patients with Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures.Neurology international · 2025Article
- Interoceptive Dysfunction in Psychiatric Disorders and Non-invasive Neuromodulation for Improving Interoception.Neuroscience bulletin · 2025Review
- Functional movement disorder is associated with abnormal interoceptive brain activity: a task-based functional MRI study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Functional Neurological Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Complex and Potentially Significant Relationship.Brain and behavior · 2024Review
- Functional Movement Disorder Is Associated with Abnormal Interoceptive Brain Activity: A Task-based Functional MRI Study.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024Article
- Interoception in functional motor symptoms and functional seizures: Preliminary evidence of intact accuracy alongside reduced insight and altered sensibility.Behaviour research and therapy · 2023Article
- Use of non-invasive neurostimulation for rehabilitation in functional movement disorders.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2022Review
- Neurostimulation for the treatment of functional neurological disorder: A systematic review.Epilepsy & behavior reports · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundRecent studies have shown how emotional and cognitive factors might combine together to determine the onset and maintenance of functional motor symptoms (FMS). Nevertheless, no studies have assessed whether brain circuits involved in regulation and processing of emotions and attention might be influenced by neuromodulation. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a single anodic tDCS session over the right posterior parietal cortex in subjects with FMS and in healthy individuals. MATERIALS AND
methodsNine patients and seven healthy subjects underwent two sessions of tDCS (real and sham), in a randomized order. At the end of each session, all participants underwent the heart beat detection task (interoceptive sensitivity) and the Posner paradigm (spatial attention).
resultsAfter sham stimulation, patients with FMS showed significantly lower interoceptive sensitivity and greater cueing effect for reaction times at the Posner paradigm than healthy controls. There was a significant improvement between the levels of interoceptive sensitivity after real and sham stimulation in the whole group of participants and in the group of patients with FMS.
conclusionsOur study provides first indications for a neuromodulatory effect of a single anodic tDCS session over the right posterior parietal cortex on interoceptive sensitivity in subjects with FMS.
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