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SynthesisMedical sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Episodic Migraine: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.

Faraidoon Haghdoost, Abdul Salam, Fatemeh Zahra Seyed-Kolbadi, Deepika Padala, Candice Delcourt, Anthony Rodgers

Abstract readSystematic ReviewMeta-Analysis
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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Faraidoon HaghdoostThe George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3912-5874
Abdul SalamThe George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia.
Fatemeh Zahra Seyed-KolbadiEvidence Based Medicine Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas 79196-93116, Iran.
Deepika PadalaThe George Institute for Global Health, Hyderabad 500034, India.
Candice DelcourtThe George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia.
Anthony RodgersThe George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Migraine DisordersTranscranial Direct Current StimulationAdultFemaleHumansMaleRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicTreatment Outcomebrain stimulationheadachemigraineneuromodulationprophylaxistDCS

Identifiers

PMID40700113
PMCPMC12286047

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Registered trials

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