tDCS treatment improves psychopathological symptoms in adolescents with anorexia nervosa: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study
Floriana Costanzo, Luciana Ursumando, Viviana Ponzo, Alessio Maria Monteleone, Valeria Zanna, Stefano Vicari · FENS Forum 2024
Available treatments for Anorexia Nervosa (AN) have demonstrated limited efficacy. Moreover, therapeutic interventions focusing on neural correlates and on populations with AN in adolescence are limited. A double-blind, placebo-controlled, add-on randomized trial (RCT) was conducted to study the efficacy of excitatory transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the left prefrontal cortex in improving the clinical outcome of traditional treatment in adolescents with AN. Fifty girls with AN (aged 10 to 18 years) underwent 18 sessions of tDCS treatment (active or placebo) over the PFC (an
ePoster · Neuroscience