ArticleCognitive neurodynamics2023
Transcranial alternating current stimulation ameliorates emotional attention through neural oscillations modulation.
Article in Cognitive neurodynamics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation at the Individual Alpha Frequency Shows Potential Value in Improving Working Memory in Healthy Participants.Brain and behavior · 2026Trial
- Prophylactic Effect of Prefrontal Alternating Current Stimulation on Postoperative Sleep Disturbance in Patients Undergoing Gynecological Laparoscope: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Trial.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2025Trial
- Exploring the Effects of tACS Duration on Resting-State EEG: An Exploratory Within-Subject Study in Healthy Volunteers.Journal of medical systems · 2026Article
- Language-specific representation of emotion-concept knowledge causally supports emotion inference.iScience · 2024Article
- Aligning Event-Related Potentials with Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation for Modulation-a Review.Brain topography · 2024Review
- Long-range and cross-frequency neural modulation of gamma flicker on vigilance decrement.Cognitive neurodynamics · 2024Article
- Intensity- and frequency-specific effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation are explained by network dynamics.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Neurophysiological mechanisms of transcranial alternating current stimulation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
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Abstract
Background: Numerous clinical reports have suggested that psychopathy like schizophrenia, anxiety and depression is accompanied by early attentional abnormalities in emotional processing. Recently, the efficacy of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) in changing emotional functioning has been repeatedly observed and demonstrated a causal relationship between endogenous oscillations and emotional processing. Aims: Up to now, tACS effects on emotional attention have not yet been tested. To assess such ability, we delivered active-tACS at individual alpha frequency (IAF), 10 Hz or sham-tACS for 7 consecutive days in the bilaterally dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) to totally 79 healthy participants. Results: IAF-tACS group showed significant alpha entrainment at-rest, especially in open state around stimulation area and showed an obvious advantage compared to 10 Hz-tACS. Event-related potential revealed a significant larger P200 amplitude after active-tACS and IAF group showed wider range of emotions than 10 Hz-tACS, indicating the attentional improvement in facial emotion processing. A notable positive correlation between alpha power and P200 amplitude provided an electrophysiological interpretation regarding the role of tACS in emotional attention modulation instead of somatosensory effects. Conclusion: These results support a seminal outcome for the effect of IAF-tACS on emotional attention modulation, demonstrating a feasible and individual-specific therapy for neuropsychiatric disorders related to emotion processing, especially regarding oscillatory disturbances.
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