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tDCS reduces depression and state anxiety symptoms in older adults from the augmenting cognitive training in older adults study (ACT)

Hausman et al., 2024. Brain Stimulation The largest sham-controlled randomized clinical trial for transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) completed to…

Time-course of the tDCS antidepressant effect: An individual participant data meta-analysis

Nikolin et al., 2023. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry. A meta-analysis of ten randomised controlled trials of tDCS…

Self-administered transcranial direct current stimulation for pain in older adults with knee osteoarthritis: A randomized controlled study

Martorella et al, 2022. Brain Stimulation. A randomized clinical study on the feasibility and efficacy of home-based self-administered tDCS in…

A Clinical Case Series of Acute and Maintenance Home Administered Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Treatment-Resistant Depression

Le et al, 2022. The Journal of ECT. A retrospective examination of clinical data from up to 2.5 years of…

Efficacy of neurostimulation across mental disorders: systematic review and meta-analysis of 208 randomized controlled trials

Hyde et al, 2022. Molecular Psychiatry. A systematic review and meta-analysis of 208 randomized sham-controlled trials using TMS and/or tDCS to…

Neurostimulation methods in the treatment of depression: A comparison of rTMS, tDCS, and Venlafaxine using a pooled analysis of two studies

Hejzlar, Novak, & Bares, 2021. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. The analysis (n=117, both patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD) and non-TRD were…

Parsing the antidepressant effects of non-invasive brain stimulation and pharmacotherapy:

Goerigk et al, 2021. Brain Stimulation. Randomized clinical study with antidepressant-free, clinically depressed patients to receive 22 bifrontal tDCS (2 mA, 30 min)…

Non-invasive therapeutic brain stimulation for treatment of resistant focal epilepsy in a teenager

Muñoz-Ruiz et al, 2020. Clinical Neurophysiology Practice. A case report of a 13-year old patient with symptomatic focal…

Cathodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of the Occipital cortex in Episodic Migraine: A Randomized Sham-Controlled Crossover Study

Ahdab et al, 2020. Journal of Clinical Medicine. A double-blind and sham-controlled RCT that evaluated the efficacy of tDCS in…

Evidence-based guidelines and secondary meta-analysis for the use of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in neurological and psychiatric disorders

Fregni et al, 2020. International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. An update to the international evidence-based guidelines for the use of Transcranial…