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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Patients with Anxiety: Current Perspectives
- Source :
- Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. 16:161-169
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2020.
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Abstract
- Anxiety is one of the most prevalent and debilitating psychiatric conditions worldwide. Pharmaco- and psycho-therapies have been employed in the treatment of human anxiety to date. Yet, either alone or in combination, unsatisfactory patient outcomes are prevalent, resulting in a considerable number of people whose symptoms fail to respond to conventional therapies with symptoms remaining after intervention. The demand for new therapies has given birth to several noninvasive brain stimulation techniques. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has arisen as a promising tool and has been proven to be safe and well tolerated for the treatment of many diseases, including chronic pain, depression, and anxiety. Here, reports of the use of tDCS in anxiety disorders in human patients were reviewed and summarized. A literature search was conducted in mid-2019, to identify clinical studies that evaluated the use of tDCS for the treatment of anxiety behavior. The PubMed, Web of Science, and Scielo and PsycInfo databases were explored using the following descriptors: "anxiety", "anxious behavior", "tDCS", and "transcranial direct current stimulation". Among the selected articles, considerable variability in the type of tDCS treatment applied in interventions was observed. Evidence shows that tDCS may be more effective when used in combination with drugs and cognitive behavioral therapies; however future large-scale clinical trials are recommended to better clarify the real effects of this intervention alone, or in combination with others.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Transcranial direct-current stimulation
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Chronic pain
Psychological intervention
Cognition
medicine.disease
030227 psychiatry
Clinical trial
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Intervention (counseling)
Brain stimulation
medicine
Anxiety
medicine.symptom
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
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Details
- ISSN :
- 11782021
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........a30fb2427e6f3701d0a9f3eb9834d218
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2147/ndt.s195840