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Neural signature of tDCS, tPCS and their combination: Comparing the effects on neural plasticity
- Source :
- Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2017.
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Abstract
- Transcranial pulsed current stimulation (tPCS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) are two noninvasive neuromodulatory brain stimulation techniques whose effects on human brain and behavior have been studied individually. In the present study we aimed to quantify the effects of tDCS and tPCS, individually and in combination, on cortical activity, sensitivity and pain-related assessments in healthy individuals in order to understand their neurophysiological mechanisms and potential applications in clinical populations. A total of 48 healthy individuals participated in this randomized double blind sham controlled study. Participants were randomized to receive a single stimulation session of either: active or sham tPCS and active or sham tDCS. Quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG), sensitivity and pain assessments were used before and after each stimulation session. We observed that tPCS had a higher effect on power, as compared to tDCS, in several bandwidths on various cortical regions: the theta band in the parietal region (p = 0.021), the alpha band in the temporal (p=0.009), parietal (p = 0.0063), and occipital (p < 0.0001) regions. We found that the combination of tPCS and tDCS significantly decreased power in the low beta bandwidth of the frontal (p = 0.0006), central (p = 0.0001), and occipital (p = 0.0003) regions, when compared to sham stimulation. Additionally, tDCS significantly increased power in high beta over the temporal (p = 0.0015) and parietal (p = 0.0007) regions, as compared to sham. We found no effect on sensitivity or pain-related assessments. We concluded that tPCS and tDCS have different neurophysiological mechanisms, elicit distinct signatures, and that the combination of the two leads to no effect or a decrease on qEEG power. Further studies are required to examine the effects of these techniques on clinical populations in which EEG signatures have been found altered. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.<br />This research was supported by Labuschagne Foundation. Dr. Thibaut was founded by the Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF) and the Duesberg Foundation. Dr. Morales-Quezada received funding support from an Institutional National Research Service Award from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health grant T32AT000051, the Ryoichi Sasakawa Fellowship Fund, and by the Program in Placebo Studies at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Deitos, A. was founded by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel - CAPES, International Cooperation General Program - PGCI (no 023/11). Prof. Fregni has been supported by NIH RO1 grant (1R01HD082302-01A1).
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Adult
Male
Adolescent
medicine.medical_treatment
Stimulation
Electroencephalography
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Article
tDCS
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
tPCS
Double-Blind Method
Neuroplasticity
medicine
Psicologia [Ciências Sociais]
Humans
Non-invasive brain stimulation
EEG
Top-down/bottom-up connectivity
Neuronal Plasticity
Neuroscience (all)
Science & Technology
Transcranial direct-current stimulation
medicine.diagnostic_test
General Neuroscience
Brain
Human brain
Neurophysiology
Middle Aged
Quantitative electroencephalography
Evoked Potentials, Motor
3. Good health
030104 developmental biology
medicine.anatomical_structure
Brain stimulation
Ciências Sociais::Psicologia
Female
Psychology
Neuroscience
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0491b026c5f09baa4087b6a2c3b0c5f9