The effects of transcranial electrical stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on tactile spatial discrimination performance.
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
Tactile discrimination performance
Transcranial pulsed current stimulation
Transcranial random noise stimulation
Journal
Behavioural brain research
ISSN: 1872-7549
Titre abrégé: Behav Brain Res
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 8004872
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
24 08 2023
24 08 2023
Historique:
received:
27
03
2023
revised:
14
07
2023
accepted:
24
07
2023
medline:
14
8
2023
pubmed:
28
7
2023
entrez:
27
7
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) plays a key role in tactile perceptual discrimination performance. Both transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) and anodal transcranial pulsed current stimulation (tPCS) have been shown to modulate neural activity in cortical regions. In this study, we aimed to determine whether tRNS and anodal tPCS over the left DLPFC would improve tactile perceptual discrimination performance of the right index finger in healthy neurological individuals. Subjects underwent a grating orientation task before, immediately after, and 30 min after applying tRNS in Experiment 1 or anodal tPCS in Experiment 2. tRNS application on the left DLPFC tended to enhance tactile perceptual discrimination performance. In contrast, the application of anodal tPCS over the left DLPFC did not affect tactile perceptual discrimination performance. These findings indicate that transcranial electrical stimulation to the left DLPFC may improve tactile perceptual discrimination performance, with effects that depend on stimulus modality.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37499909
pii: S0166-4328(23)00318-2
doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2023.114600
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
114600Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest None.