Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Does Not Alter Somatosensory Temporal Discrimination Threshold.

Autor: Ataoğlu EE; Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Beşevler, 06500, Ankara, Turkey., Türksoy E; Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Beşevler, 06500, Ankara, Turkey., Aslan İ; Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Beşevler, 06500, Ankara, Turkey., Boran E; Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Beşevler, 06500, Ankara, Turkey.; The Clinical Neurophysiology Division, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey., Cengiz B; Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Beşevler, 06500, Ankara, Turkey. bcengiz@gazi.edu.tr.; The Clinical Neurophysiology Division, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey. bcengiz@gazi.edu.tr.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Cerebellum (London, England) [Cerebellum] 2022 Dec; Vol. 21 (6), pp. 920-925. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Oct 30.
DOI: 10.1007/s12311-021-01340-w
Abstrakt: This study aimed to explore the role of the cerebellum on the somatosensory temporal discrimination (STD) process. Twenty healthy volunteers were enrolled in the study. Each participant was included in three different transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) sessions as anodal, cathodal, and sham sessions in randomised order. Anodal and cathodal cerebellar tDCS (cTDCS) were given for 20 min at an intensity of 2 mA. The results of the study indicate no effect of cTDCS on STD. Although the study results show that cTDCS does not affect STD, because of the restricted sample size of the study, it is useful and necessary to investigate this relationship more in depth in a larger healthy subject population using different cTDCS methodologies.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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