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ArticleeNeuro2023

Behavioral Validation of Individualized Low-Intensity Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (tES) Protocols.

Rajat Joshi, Sainath Murali, Nivethida Thirugnanasambandam

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Article in eNeuro, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rajat JoshiNational Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar 122 052, India.ORCID 0000-0002-1664-8798
Sainath MuraliNational Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar 122 052, India.ORCID 0000-0001-7892-7496
Nivethida ThirugnanasambandamNational Brain Research Centre (NBRC), Manesar 122 052, India nivethida.t@iitb.ac.in.ORCID 0000-0002-4834-3016
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay · IN

Funding

DBT-Wellcome Trust India Alliance IA/CPHI/16/1/502624
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Large interindividual variability in the effects of low-intensity transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) considerably limits its potential for clinical applications. It has been recently proposed that individualizing stimulation dose by accounting for interindividual anatomic differences would reduce the variability in electric fields (E-fields) over the targeted cortical site and therefore produce more consistent behavioral outcomes. However, improvement in behavioral outcomes following individualized dose tES has never been compared with that of conventional fixed dose tES. In this study, we aimed to empirically evaluate the effect of individualized dose tES on behavior and further compare it with the effects of sham and fixed dose stimulations. We conducted a single-blinded, sham-controlled, repeated-measures study to examine the impact of transcranial direct current stimulation on motor learning and that of transcranial alternating current stimulation on the working memory of 42 healthy adult individuals. Each participant underwent three sessions of tES, receiving fixed dose, individualized dose, or sham stimulation over the targeted brain region for the entire behavioral task. Our results showed that the individualized dose reduced the variability in E-fields at the targeted cortical surfaces. However, there was no significant effect of tES on behavioral outcomes. We argue that although the stimulation dose and E-field intensity at the targeted cortical site are linearly correlated, the effect of E-fields on behavior seems to be more complex. Effective optimization of tES protocols warrants further research considering both neuroanatomical and functional aspects of behavior.

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Transcranial Direct Current StimulationAdultBrainHumansMemory, Short-Termimplicit motor learningindividualized dosetACStDCStranscranial electrical stimulation (tES)working memory

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PMID38135512
PMCPMC10748339
OpenAlexW4390100041

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