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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2025

Repeated tDCS at Clinically Relevant Field Intensity Can Boost Concurrent Motor Learning in Rats.

Forouzan Farahani, Mihály Vöröslakos, Andrew M Birnbaum, Mohamad FallahRad, Preston T J A Williams, John H Martin, Lucas C Parra

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Forouzan FarahaniBiomedical Engineering Department, City College of New York, New York, New York 10031.
Mihály VöröslakosNeuroscience Institute, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York, New York 10016.
Andrew M BirnbaumBiomedical Engineering Department, City College of New York, New York, New York 10031.
Mohamad FallahRadBiomedical Engineering Department, City College of New York, New York, New York 10031.
Preston T J A WilliamsMolecular, Cellular and Biomedical Science, CUNY School of Medicine, New York, New York 10031.
John H MartinMolecular, Cellular and Biomedical Science, CUNY School of Medicine, New York, New York 10031.
Lucas C ParraBiomedical Engineering Department, City College of New York, New York, New York 10031 parra@ccny.cuny.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4667-816X

Funding

Research Center in Minority Institutions (RCMI) at City CollegeU54MD017979 · NIMHD · CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK · PI M. Felice Marina GHILARDI · 2024 to 2026
$15.9M
Lesion and Activity Dependent Corticospinal Tract PlasticityR01NS064004 · NINDS · RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK D/B/A RF CUNY - CUNY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI John H Martin · 2009 to 2026
$5.2M
Interaction of Motor Learning with Transcranial Direct Current - Efficacy and MechanismsR01NS130484 · NINDS · CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK · PI John H Martin, LUCAS C PARRA · 2023 to 2026
$2.2M
Effects of direct-current stimulation on synaptic plasticityR01NS095123 · NINDS · CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK · PI PARRA, LUCAS C · 2016 to 2020
$1.7M
NIMHD NIH HHS U54 MD017979NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS064004NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS095123NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS130484
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical trials with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) use weak electric fields that have yet to demonstrate measurable behavioral effects in animal models. We hypothesized that weak stimulation will produce sizable effects, provided it is applied concurrently with behavioral training and repeated over multiple sessions. We tested this in a rodent model of dexterous motor skill learning using a pellet-reaching task in

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LearningMotor CortexMotor SkillsTranscranial Direct Current StimulationAnimalsEvoked Potentials, MotorMaleRatsRats, Sprague-Dawleybrain stimulationmotor learningreaching behavior

Identifiers

PMID40216548
PMCPMC12079733

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