Enhancing multisensory rehabilitation of visual field defects with transcranial direct current stimulation: A randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Visual rehabilitation is necessary for improving the quality of life of patients with acquired homonymous visual field defects (HVFDs). By modulating brain excitability and plasticity, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) may accelerate and increase the effects of compensatory trainings, which are usually long and intensive. In the present proof-of-principle, double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled study, we assess whether anodal tDCS applied over ipsilesional occipital or parietal cortices can increase the effects of a compensatory audiovisual training for HVFDs.

Methods

Eighteen participants with chronic HVFDs were randomized to receive anodal or sham tDCS over the ipsilesional parietal or occipital cortex during a 2-week (10 days, 2 h/da

SUBMITTER: Diana L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11625917 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature