Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33679291›Full record

ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2021

Region-Specific Effects of 10-Hz Transcranial Alternate Current Stimulation Over the Left Posterior Parietal Cortex and Primary Somatosensory Area on Tactile Two-Point Discrimination Threshold.

Hirotake Yokota, Naofumi Otsuru, Kei Saito, Sho Kojima, Shota Miyaguchi, Yasuto Inukai, Kazuaki Nagasaka, Hideaki Onishi

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
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

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hirotake YokotaInstitute for Human Movement and Medical Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan.
Naofumi OtsuruInstitute for Human Movement and Medical Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan.
Kei SaitoInstitute for Human Movement and Medical Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan.
Sho KojimaInstitute for Human Movement and Medical Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan.
Shota MiyaguchiInstitute for Human Movement and Medical Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan.
Yasuto InukaiInstitute for Human Movement and Medical Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan.
Kazuaki NagasakaInstitute for Human Movement and Medical Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan.
Hideaki OnishiInstitute for Human Movement and Medical Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan.
Niigata University of Health and Welfare · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Changes in α-band cortical oscillatory activity (8-13 Hz) affect perception; however, how these changes in the left posterior parietal cortex (PPC) and primary somatosensory cortex (S1), which play different roles in determining the two-point discrimination (TPD) threshold, affect TPD threshold remains unelucidated. Therefore, to determine TPD threshold, we aimed to investigate the function of the left PPC and S1 by applying α-band transcranial alternating current stimulation (α-tACS; 10 Hz). TPD threshold was examined at the pad of the right index finger, contralateral to the stimulation site, in 17 healthy adults using a custom-made, computer-controlled, two-point tactile stimulation device, with random application of either active or sham α-tACS over the left PPC (Experiment 1) and left S1 (Experiment 2). Then, 50% TPD threshold was obtained in the active and sham conditions via logistic regression analysis. Afterward, we compared the difference between the active and sham conditions at 50% TPD threshold in each region and found that α-tACS reduced TPD threshold when applied over the left PPC (

Indexed as

posterior parietal cortexprimary somatosensory cortextranscranial alternating current stimulationtwo-point discriminationα-band activity

Identifiers

PMID33679291
PMCPMC7930224
OpenAlexW3131676764

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.