ArticleNeuroscience2021
Differential Behavioral and Neural Effects of Regional Cerebellar tDCS.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Probing the linguistic cerebellum: a qualitative review of the effects of cerebellar neurostimulation on language processing.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
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- Electrical stimulation of the cerebellum facilitates automatic but not controlled word retrieval.Brain structure & function · 2023Trial
- Modulating mental state recognition by anodal tDCS over the cerebellum.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- The cerebellum specializes for language even in the absence of contralateral neocortical inputs.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Cerebellar acceleration of learning in an evidence-accumulation task.Cell reports · 2026Article
- Cerebellar tDCS Modulates Corticocortical Functional Networks in a Regionally Specific Manner.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Differential Effects of Cerebellar tDCS on Sequential Mentalizing.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2025Article
- Exploring the Effects of Cerebellar tDCS on Brain Connectivity Using Resting-State fMRI.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Time Dependent Effects of Cerebellar tDCS on Cerebello-cortical Connectivity Networks in Young Adults.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2025Article
- Direct Current Stimulation over the Primary Motor Cortex, Cerebellum, and Spinal Cord to Modulate Balance Performance: A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Cerebellar Neuromodulation Impacts Reading Fluency in Young Adults.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Head and shoulders-The impact of an extended head model on the simulation and optimization of transcranial electric stimulation.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Anodal cerebellar stimulation increases cortical activation: Evidence for cerebellar scaffolding of cortical processing.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Classification of severe obstructive sleep apnea with cognitive impairment using degree centrality: A machine learning analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Exciting the social butterfly: Anodal cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation modulates neural activation during predictive social mentalizing.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
- Can transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the cerebellum improve implicit social and cognitive sequence learning?International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
- The effects of stimulating the cerebellum on social sequences: A tDCS-fMRI pilot study: Los efectos de estimular el cerebelo en secuencias sociales: Un estudio piloto con tDCS y fMRI.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
The human cerebellum contributes to both motor and non-motor processes. Within the cerebellum, different subregions support sensorimotor and broader cognitive functions, due to regional patterns in anatomical connectivity with the cerebral cortex and spinal and vestibular systems. We evaluated the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) targeting different cerebellar regions on language task performance and whole-brain functional activation patterns. Functional MRI data were acquired while 43 healthy young adults (15 males, 28 females; 23.3 ± 3.0 years) performed a sentence completion task before and after 20 min of 1.5 mA anodal tDCS. Participants received tDCS targeting either the anterior sensorimotor cerebellum (n = 11; 3 cm right of inion, over lobule V); the right posterolateral cerebellum (n = 18; 1 cm down and 4 cm right of inion, over lobule VII); or sham tDCS (n = 14). TDCS targeting the right posterolateral cerebellum improved task accuracy relative to the sham condition (p = 0.04) and increased activation in left frontal and temporal cortices relevant to task performance (post-tDCS > pre-tDCS; T 3.17, FDR p < 0.05 cluster correction). The regions of increased BOLD signal after right posterolateral cerebellar tDCS fell within the network showing functional connectivity with right cerebellar lobule VII, suggesting specific modulation of this network. In contrast, tDCS targeting the sensorimotor cerebellum did not impact task performance and increased BOLD signal only in one cluster extending into the precentral gyrus. These findings indicate that sensorimotor and cognitive functional cerebellar subregions differentially impact behavioral task performance and task-relevant activation patterns, further contributing to our understanding of the cerebellar modulation of motor and non-motor functions.
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