Physiology of transcranial direct current stimulation

CJ Stagg, A Antal, MA Nitsche - The journal of ECT, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Direct current stimulation is a neuromodulatory noninvasive brain stimulation tool, which
was first introduced in animal and human experiments in the 1950s, and added to the …

The contribution of interindividual factors to variability of response in transcranial direct current stimulation studies

LM Li, K Uehara, T Hanakawa - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2015 - frontiersin.org
There has been an explosion of research using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
for investigating and modulating human cognitive and motor function in healthy populations …

Inter-individual variability in tDCS effects: a narrative review on the contribution of stable, variable, and contextual factors

A Vergallito, S Feroldi, A Pisoni, LJ Romero Lauro - Brain sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to its safety, portability, and cheapness, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
use largely increased in research and clinical settings. Despite tDCS's wide application …

Neurobiological mechanisms of transcranial direct current stimulation for psychiatric disorders; neurophysiological, chemical, and anatomical considerations

Y Yamada, T Sumiyoshi - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Backgrounds: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive brain
stimulation technique for the treatment of several psychiatric disorders, eg, mood disorders …

Brain networks and their relevance for stroke rehabilitation

AG Guggisberg, PJ Koch, FC Hummel… - Clinical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Stroke has long been regarded as focal disease with circumscribed damage leading to
neurological deficits. However, advances in methods for assessing the human brain and in …

Transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) mechanisms and its effects on cortical excitability and connectivity

T Reed, R Cohen Kadosh - Journal of inherited metabolic disease, 2018 - Springer
In this review, we describe transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) techniques currently
being used in neuroscientific research, including transcranial direct current (tDCS) …

Modulation of GABA and resting state functional connectivity by transcranial direct current stimulation

V Bachtiar, J Near, H Johansen-Berg, CJ Stagg - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
We previously demonstrated that network level functional connectivity in the human brain
could be related to levels of inhibition in a major network node at baseline. In this study, we …

The impact of NMDA receptor hypofunction on GABAergic neurons in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia

SM Cohen, RW Tsien, DC Goff, MM Halassa - Schizophrenia research, 2015 - Elsevier
While the dopamine hypothesis has dominated schizophrenia research for several decades,
more recent studies have highlighted the role of fast synaptic transmitters and their receptors …

Understanding the behavioural consequences of noninvasive brain stimulation

S Bestmann, AO de Berker, J Bonaiuto - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2015 - cell.com
Transcranial electrical stimulation (tES) influences neural activity in a way that can elicit
behavioural change but may also improve high-level cognition or ameliorate symptoms in …

Complementary contributions of non-REM and REM sleep to visual learning

M Tamaki, Z Wang, T Barnes-Diana, DA Guo… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Sleep is beneficial for learning. However, it remains unclear whether learning is facilitated
by non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep or by REM sleep, whether it results from plasticity …