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ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2021

Combining Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation With Tai Chi to Improve Dual-Task Gait Performance in Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Ying-Yi Liao, Mu-N Liu, Han-Cheng Wang, Vincent Walsh, Chi Ieong Lau

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Article in Frontiers in aging neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 10 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Combining transcranial electrical stimulation with training in older adults: Effects on dual-task ability.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2026
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  16. A meta-analysis of the effect of non-invasive neuromodulation techniques on improving cognitive function in patients with Alzheimer's disease.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
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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

5 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Ying-Yi LiaoDepartment of Gerontological Health Care, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan.
Mu-N LiuDepartment of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Han-Cheng WangDepartment of Neurology, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Vincent WalshApplied Cognitive Neuroscience Group, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Chi Ieong LauDepartment of Neurology, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Science · TWNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · TWNational Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · TWUniversity College London · GBUniversity Memory and Aging Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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dual-task gaitexecutive functionmild cognitive impairmentTai ChitDCS

Identifiers

PMID34966268
PMCPMC8710779
OpenAlexW4200518596

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