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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2024

The effect of transcranial electrical stimulation on the relief of mental fatigue.

Ruijuan Chen, Lengjie Huang, Rui Wang, Jieying Fei, Huiquan Wang, Jinhai Wang

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Ruijuan ChenSchool of Life Sciences, Tiangong University, Tianjin, China.
Lengjie HuangSchool of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin, China.
Rui WangSchool of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin, China.
Jieying FeiSchool of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin, China.
Huiquan WangSchool of Life Sciences, Tiangong University, Tianjin, China.
Jinhai WangSchool of Life Sciences, Tiangong University, Tianjin, China.

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Abstract

Objective: The presence of mental fatigue seriously affects daily life and working conditions. Non-invasive transcranial electrical stimulation has become an increasingly popular tool for relieving mental fatigue. We investigated whether transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) could be used to alleviate the state of mental fatigue in a population of healthy young adults and compared their effects. Methods: We recruited 10 participants for a blank control, repeated measures study. Each participant received 15 min of anodal tDCS, α-tACS, and blank stimulation. Participants were required to fill in the scale, perform the test task and collect ECG signals in the baseline, fatigue and post-stimulus states. We then assessed participants' subjective fatigue scale scores, test task accuracy and HRV characteristics of ECG signals separately. Results: We found that both anodal tDCS and α-tACS significantly ( Conclusion: Both tDCS and α-tACS can be effective in relieving mental fatigue, and α-tACS is more effective than tDCS. This study provides theoretical support for tDCS with α-tACS having a alleviating effect on mental fatigue and the use of ECG as a valid objective assessment tool.

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ECGHRVmental fatiguetDCSα-tACS

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PMCPMC11218543

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