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Liu, Shuang, He, Yuchen, Guo, Dongyue, Liu, Xiaoya, Hao, Xinyu, Hu, Pengchong, Ming, Dong |
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Cognitive Neurodynamics; Dec2023, Vol. 17 Issue 6, p1473-1483, 11p |
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Background: Numerous clinical reports have suggested that psychopathy like schizophrenia, anxiety and depression is accompanied by early attentional abnormalities in emotional processing. Recently, the efficacy of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) in changing emotional functioning has been repeatedly observed and demonstrated a causal relationship between endogenous oscillations and emotional processing. Aims: Up to now, tACS effects on emotional attention have not yet been tested. To assess such ability, we delivered active-tACS at individual alpha frequency (IAF), 10 Hz or sham-tACS for 7 consecutive days in the bilaterally dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) to totally 79 healthy participants. Results: IAF-tACS group showed significant alpha entrainment at-rest, especially in open state around stimulation area and showed an obvious advantage compared to 10 Hz-tACS. Event-related potential revealed a significant larger P200 amplitude after active-tACS and IAF group showed wider range of emotions than 10 Hz-tACS, indicating the attentional improvement in facial emotion processing. A notable positive correlation between alpha power and P200 amplitude provided an electrophysiological interpretation regarding the role of tACS in emotional attention modulation instead of somatosensory effects. Conclusion: These results support a seminal outcome for the effect of IAF-tACS on emotional attention modulation, demonstrating a feasible and individual-specific therapy for neuropsychiatric disorders related to emotion processing, especially regarding oscillatory disturbances. Highlights: Proposing a non-invasive treatment on emotional attention–long-term tACS treatment. Exploring the correlation between neural oscillations and the performance of emotion recognition tasks and demonstrating the emotional attention modulation by leveraging neural entrainment of weak alternating electric fields. Demonstrating the entrainment effect of individual tACS strategy in the individual frequency band for each subject, providing a feasible and individual therapy in neuropsychiatric disorders with abnormal rhythms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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