Investigating the effects of tDCS on Visual Orientation Discrimination Task Performance: 'The possible influence of placebo'.

ABSTRACT: The non-invasive neuromodulation technique tDCS offers the promise of a low cost tool for both research and clinical applications in psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience. However, findings regarding its efficacy are often equivocal. A key issue is that the clinical and cognitive applications studied are often complex and thus effects of tDCS are difficult to predict given its known effects on the basic underlying neurophysiology, namely alterations in cortical inhibition-excitation balance. As such, it may be beneficial to assess the effects of tDCS in tasks whose performance has a clear link to cortical inhibition-excitation balance such as the visual orientation discrimination task (ODT). In prior studies in our laboratory no practise effects were found during 2 consecutive runs of th

SUBMITTER: BinDawood A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7115888 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature