ArticleCognitive therapy and research2020
Transcranial direct current stimulation of default mode network parietal nodes decreases negative mind-wandering about the past.
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- The Relative Accuracy of Different Methods for Measuring Mind Wandering Subtypes: A Systematic Review.Brain and behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Comparing Different Montages of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Treating Treatment-Resistant Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A Randomized, Single-Blind Clinical Trial.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Trial
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- Aberrant degree centrality profiles during rumination in major depressive disorder.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Recent advances in the neuroscience of spontaneous and off-task thought: implications for mental health.Nature. Mental health · 2023Article
- The default mode network and rumination in individuals at risk for depression.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- Differential patterns of default mode network activity associated with negative and positive rumination in bipolar disorder.Journal of affective disorders · 2023Article
- Prefrontal tDCS is unable to modulate mind wandering propensity or underlying functional or effective brain connectivity.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Mind-wandering: mechanistic insights from lesion, tDCS, and iEEG.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2022Review
- Restoration of default mode network and task positive network anti-correlation associated with mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for bipolar disorder.Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging · 2022Article
- Cognitive Reserve as a Protective Factor of Mental Health in Middle-Aged Adults Affected by Chronic Pain.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Mind-wandering is a cognitive process in which people spontaneously have thoughts that are unrelated to their current activities. The types of mind-wandering thoughts that people have when affected by a negative mood resemble thoughts associated with mood disorders (e.g., negative thoughts about the past). Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a form of noninvasive brain stimulation that can modulate cognition and affect in healthy and clinical populations. Ninety participants received either excitatory, inhibitory, or sham tDCS to bilateral inferior parietal lobe (IPL) nodes of the default mode network (DMN) to assess changes in maladaptive mind-wandering following criticism. tDCS did not change mind-wandering frequency after hearing criticism, but it did change what people mind-wandered about. Specifically, cathodal stimulation decreased the frequency of negative mind-wandering thoughts about the past. Future studies could investigate tDCS of DMN regions as an intervention for patients with mood disorders who suffer from negative, past-oriented cognitions.
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