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Filter by:Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases, affecting between 0.5% and 1% of the general population. Therefore, new diagnostic and treatment methods are having a big impact on society. Epilepsy is also one of the most commonly diagnosed pediatric neurological disorders, with long-term implications for the quality of life of those affected and their relatives. In only two-thirds of cases, seizures can be adequately controlled with anticonvulsant drug therapy. For other patients with a drug-resistant focal epilepsy (up to around 2 million in Europe) epilepsy surgery is currently the most effective treatment. However, only 15-20% of these drug-resistant patients are eligible for epilepsy surgery. This is either because the cortical epileptogenic zone cannot be localized with sufficient precision with standard diagnostic means, or because the epileptogenic zone overlaps meaningful cortical areas, so that it cannot be surgically removed without considerable neurological deficit.
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a noninvasive method of modulating brain activity and has therapeutic potential in many neurological and psychiatric conditions. However, unlike every current FDA-approved form of brain stimulation, there is no method of individualizing stimulation dose. In this study, a method of individualizing tDCS dose on behavioral outcomes and whether this could help to improve the consistency and magnitude of the stimulation effects will be tested.
People utilize two behavioral strategies, goal-directed and habitual, when engaging in value-based decision-making that involves rewarding or punishing outcomes. Accumulating evidence suggests an imbalance between habitual and goal-directed behavior in favor of habitual control in parallel with exaggerated tendency toward compulsive/harm avoidance behavior in OCD. In healthy subjects, an arbitration mechanism has been proposed recently that controls the balance between those two strategies of action selection. Arbitration regions regulate the goal-directed/habitual decision-making balance by selectively downregulating the activity of the habitual regions. This project aims to explore the neurobehavioral characteristics of arbitration mechanism and its relationship with behaviors and clinical phenotypes in OCD by applying computational cognitive neuroscience, clinical task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) method.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is effective and safe in the treatment Bipolar depression. Randomized, double-blind Controlled Clinical Trial. Subjects Adults (between 19 and 65 years of age) with Bipolar depression who meet the inclusion criteria and who agree to participate in the study Will recruit from clinical referrals. - Active tDCS Anode - left DLPFC Cathode - right DLPFC Electric current is 2mA - Current is applied for 30 min - Sham tDCS Same assembly is used Current is applied for 1 min Both groups 30~42 stimulation sessions on consecutive days. Baseline(visit 1), 2 week(visit 2), 4 week(visit 3), 6 week(visit 4), and 12 week(visit 5) Check compliance with mobile application(MINDD-CONNECT) connections.
The aim of this study is to investigate whether a tDCS-accompanied intensive naming therapy leads to a performance improvement in patients with chronic aphasia induced by a moderate TBI