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Enhancement of Affective Processing Induced by Bifrontal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Patients With Major Depression

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Autor(es):
Brunoni, Andre Russowsky [1, 2] ; Zanao, Tamires Araujo [1, 2] ; Vanderhasselt, Marie-Anne [3] ; Valiengo, Leandro [1, 2] ; de Oliveira, Janaina Farias [1, 2] ; Boggio, Paulo S. [4, 5] ; Lotufo, Paulo A. [2] ; Bensenor, Isabela M. [2] ; Fregni, Felipe [6]
Número total de Autores: 9
Afiliação do(s) autor(es):
[1] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Psychol, Dept Neurosci & Behav, BR-05508000 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[2] Univ Sao Paulo, Clin Res Ctr, Univ Hosp, BR-05508000 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[3] Univ Ghent, Dept Expt Clin & Hlth Psychol, B-9000 Ghent - Belgium
[4] Univ Prebiteriana Mackenzie, Ctr Hlth & Biol Sci, Social & Cognit Neurosci Lab, Sao Paulo - Brazil
[5] Univ Prebiteriana Mackenzie, Ctr Hlth & Biol Sci, Dev Disorders Program, Sao Paulo - Brazil
[6] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Spaulding Rehabil Hosp, Lab Neuromodulat, Boston, MA - USA
Número total de Afiliações: 6
Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
Fonte: NEUROMODULATION; v. 17, n. 2, p. 138-142, FEB 2014.
Citações Web of Science: 30
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ObjectiveOur aim was to evaluate whether one single section of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a neuromodulatory technique that noninvasively modifies cortical excitability, could induce acute changes in the negative attentional bias in patients with major depression. Subjects and MethodsRandomized, double-blind, sham-controlled, parallel design enrolling 24 age-, gender-matched, drug-free, depressed subjects. Anode and cathode were placed over the left and right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. We performed a word Emotional Stroop Task collecting the response times (RTs) for positive-, negative-, and neutral-related words. The emotional Stroop effect for negative vs. neutral and vs. positive words was used as the measure of attentional bias. ResultsAt baseline, RTs were significantly slower for negative vs. positive words. We found that active but not sham tDCS significantly modified the negative attentional bias, abolishing slower RT for negative words. ConclusionActive but not sham tDCS significantly modified the negative attentional bias. These findings add evidence that a single tDCS session transiently induces potent changes in affective processing, which might be one of the mechanisms of tDCS underlying mood changes. (AU)

Processo FAPESP: 11/00212-2 - Investigação da modulação cognitivo-afetiva na depressão com o uso da estimulação transcraniana por corrente contínua e sertralina: estudo randomizado, duplo-cego, placebo-controlado
Beneficiário:Tamires Araujo Zanão Mariano
Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Iniciação Científica