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ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2020

Response Variability in Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: Why Sex Matters.

Thorsten Rudroff, Craig D Workman, Alexandra C Fietsam, John Kamholz

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Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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59citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

59 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  14. Four dimensions of individualization in brain stimulation for psychiatric disorders: context, target, dose, and timing.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Thorsten RudroffDepartment of Health and Human Physiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States.
Craig D WorkmanDepartment of Health and Human Physiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States.
Alexandra C FietsamDepartment of Health and Human Physiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States.
John KamholzDepartment of Neurology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

cortical excitabilitycranial bonehormonessex differencestranscranial direct current stimulation

Identifiers

PMID32636774
PMCPMC7316984

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