ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2024
tRNS boosts visual perceptual learning in participants with bilateral macular degeneration.
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- Bilateral parietal tRNS improves processing speed on the paced auditory serial addition test (PASAT): behavioral and ERP evidence.Behavioral and brain functions : BBF · 2026Trial
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Does Not Enhance Perceptual Learning of Chinese Character Reading in Adults With Macular Degeneration.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2026Trial
- Improving Peripheral Reading With Noninvasive Transcranial Electrical Stimulation of Early Visual Areas.Translational vision science & technology · 2025Trial
- Perceptual Learning as a Rehabilitation Approach to Enhance Motion Processing in Maculopathy Patients.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2026Article
- Environmental enrichment as a mitochondria-targeting systems strategy across neurodegenerative diseases and retinal dystrophies.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Review
- Noninvasive transcranial brain stimulation for eye diseases and visual dysfunctions: A systematic review of RCTs.iScience · 2025Article
- Restoring Vision with Noninvasive Brain Stimulation: A Narrative Review.Ophthalmology and therapy · 2025Review
- Motion Processing in Visual Cortex of Maculopathy Patients.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Characterization of contrast-mediated collinear interactions in the human visual system.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Dissociable components of visual perceptual learning characterized by non-invasive brain stimulation: Stage 1 Registered Report.Brain communications · 2025Article
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Abstract
Perceptual learning (PL) has shown promise in enhancing residual visual functions in patients with age-related macular degeneration (MD), however it requires prolonged training and evidence of generalization to untrained visual functions is limited. Recent studies suggest that combining transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) with perceptual learning produces faster and larger visual improvements in participants with normal vision. Thus, this approach might hold the key to improve PL effects in MD. To test this, we trained two groups of MD participants on a contrast detection task with (
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