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Cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation in neurological disease

Several studies have highlighted the therapeutic potential of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in patients with neurological diseases, including dementia, epilepsy, post-stroke dysfunctions, movement disorders, and other pathological conditions. Because of this technique’s ability to m...

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Autores principales: Ferrucci, Roberta, Bocci, Tommaso, Cortese, Francesca, Ruggiero, Fabiana, Priori, Alberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5010772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27595007
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40673-016-0054-2
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author Ferrucci, Roberta
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Ruggiero, Fabiana
Priori, Alberto
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description Several studies have highlighted the therapeutic potential of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in patients with neurological diseases, including dementia, epilepsy, post-stroke dysfunctions, movement disorders, and other pathological conditions. Because of this technique’s ability to modify cerebellar excitability without significant side effects, cerebellar tDCS is a new, interesting, and powerful tool to induce plastic modifications in the cerebellum. In this report, we review a number of interesting studies on the application of cerebellar tDCS for various neurological conditions (ataxia, Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, essential tremor) and the possible mechanism by which the stimulation acts on the cerebellum. Study findings indicate that cerebellar tDCS is a promising therapeutic tool in treating several neurological disorders; however, this method’s efficacy appears to be limited, given the current data.
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spelling pubmed-50107722016-09-04 Cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation in neurological disease Ferrucci, Roberta Bocci, Tommaso Cortese, Francesca Ruggiero, Fabiana Priori, Alberto Cerebellum Ataxias Review Several studies have highlighted the therapeutic potential of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in patients with neurological diseases, including dementia, epilepsy, post-stroke dysfunctions, movement disorders, and other pathological conditions. Because of this technique’s ability to modify cerebellar excitability without significant side effects, cerebellar tDCS is a new, interesting, and powerful tool to induce plastic modifications in the cerebellum. In this report, we review a number of interesting studies on the application of cerebellar tDCS for various neurological conditions (ataxia, Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, essential tremor) and the possible mechanism by which the stimulation acts on the cerebellum. Study findings indicate that cerebellar tDCS is a promising therapeutic tool in treating several neurological disorders; however, this method’s efficacy appears to be limited, given the current data. BioMed Central 2016-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5010772/ /pubmed/27595007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40673-016-0054-2 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation in neurological disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5010772/
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