The Current Status of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation as a Treatment for Depression.

The article describes the history of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for treating major depression and its potential antidepressant mechanism of action and reviews findings from recent clinical trials and discuses the potential role of tDCS in treating depressive disorders. Topics discussed include an investigation on the utility of tDCS as a treatment for depression in the 1960s and randomized controlled trials conducted to examine the efficacy of tDCS in treating depression.