Topic: transcranial direct current stimulation

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has proven to be effective in reducing the seizure frequency in patients with epilepsy. This therapy greatly benefits from designing personalized electrode montages (electrode positions and currents) that target the appropriate areas of the brain. In the state-of-the-art pipelines, a specialized physician selects these areas and a biophysical model of the patient’s head is used to find an optimal electrode montage that inhibits them. In the Galvani project, we aim to go a step forward and develop a pipeline that uses personalized Neurotwins for mo

Speech impairment is reported among 70% of the Parkinson’s disease (PD) population, deeply impacting individual quality of life and social costs. Because of the lack of efficacy of pharmacological and DBS treatments, we developed an experimental protocol based on the Lee Silverman Voice Therapy (LSVT) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to study the role that such treatments have on electroencephalographic (EEG) oscillations. We enrolled 10 PD patients affected by speech disorders who underwent the 1-month LSVT protocol coupled with tDCS over the right Superior Temporal Gyrus (r

Metacognition encompasses the capability to monitor and control one’s cognitive processes. According to brain imaging, prospective and retrospective second-order judgments recruit widespread portions of prefrontal cortex (PFC), thus leaving the neuronal architecture underlying metacognitive knowledge poorly understood. This pilot experiment makes use of transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) targeting the ventromedial PFC (vmPFC) to understand whether this brain region occupies a crucial role in sustaining metacognition. A randomized, double-blind, within-subjects research design was u