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| Title |
Current Status of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Posttraumatic Stress and Other Anxiety Disorders
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| Published in |
Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, March 2016
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| DOI | 10.1007/s40473-016-0070-9 |
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| Authors |
Benjamin M. Hampstead, Emily M. Briceño, Nathan Mascaro, Andoni Mourdoukoutas, Marom Bikson |
| Abstract |
Several empirically supported treatments have been identified for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), yet a sizable number of patients are either unable to tolerate these approaches or remain symptomatic following treatment. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a well-tolerated method of modulating neuronal excitability that may hold promise as a novel intervention in PTSD and related disorders. The current review summarizes literature on the disrupted neural circuitry in PTSD and discusses the rationale for the commonly targeted prefrontal cortex (PFC) as it relates to PTSD. We then review the few prior (case) studies that have evaluated tDCS in patients with PTSD (1 study) and other anxiety disorders (4 studies). There was considerable variability in both the methods/justification for selecting the targeted brain region(s) and the tDCS montage used, which obscured any clear trends in the data. Finally, we describe the rationale for our ongoing study that specifically targets the lateral temporal cortex as a method of treating the symptoms of hyperarousal and re-experiencing in PTSD. Overall, it is clear that additional work is needed to establish dosing (e.g., intensity and duration of sessions, number of sessions) and optimal treatment targets as well as to identify synergistic effects with existing treatments. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |
| United States | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 25% |
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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 69 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 69 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 15 | 22% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 9% |
| Other | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 4 | 6% |
| Unknown | 17 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 18 | 26% |
| Neuroscience | 10 | 14% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 12% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 5 | 7% |
| Unknown | 22 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 February 2018.
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