ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2022
Predictions of tDCS treatment response in PTSD patients using EEG based classification.
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- Combined Use of Electroencephalography and Transcranial Electrical Stimulation: A Systematic Review.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Pooled it
- Machine learning in the prediction of treatment response for emotional disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical psychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Neuroimaging Insights into the Public Health Burden of Neuropsychiatric Disorders: A Systematic Review of Electroencephalography-Based Cognitive Biomarkers.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Pooled it
- Mapping the Digital Mind: A Meta-Analysis of EEG Biomarkers in Cognition, Emotion, and Mental Health.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Recent Advancements of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation and Machine Learning: Methods, Challenges, and Opportunities.Transactions on artificial intelligence · 2026Article
- Enhancing Electroencephalogram-Based Prediction of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Treatment Response Using Data Augmentation.Psychiatry investigation · 2025Article
- Advances in Electroencephalography for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Identification: A Scoping Review.IEEE open journal of engineering in medicine and biology · 2025Article
- Distinct resting state neural activity in chronic pain patients who respond to transcranial electric stimulation for pain relief.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
- Current Status and Future Directions of Artificial Intelligence in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Literature Measurement Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Machine learning-optimized non-invasive brain stimulation and treatment response classification for major depression.Bioelectronic medicine · 2024Article
- The potential of fNIRS, EEG, and transcranial current stimulation to probe neural mechanisms of resistance training.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is an emerging therapeutic tool for treating posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Prior studies have shown that tDCS responses are highly individualized, thus necessitating the individualized optimization of treatment configurations. To date, an effective tool for predicting tDCS treatment outcomes in patients with PTSD has not yet been proposed. Therefore, we aimed to build and validate a tool for predicting tDCS treatment outcomes in patients with PTSD. Forty-eight patients with PTSD received 20 min of 2 mA tDCS stimulation in position of the anode over the F3 and cathode over the F4 region. Non-responders were defined as those with less than 50% improvement after reviewing clinical symptoms based on the Clinician-Administered DSM-5 PTSD Scale (before and after stimulation). Resting-state electroencephalograms were recorded for 3 min before and after stimulation. We extracted power spectral densities (PSDs) for five frequency bands. A support vector machine (SVM) model was used to predict responders and non-responders using PSDs obtained before stimulation. We investigated statistical differences in PSDs before and after stimulation and found statistically significant differences in the F8 channel in the theta band (
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