Tag: tDCS
Flow announces pivotal trial results indicating tDCS headset is twice as...
Flow Neuroscience, the creator of the Flow transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) headset for at-home, non-invasive brain stimulation to treat depression, has announced the...
Highly targeted brain stimulation achieves “very exciting” outcomes in acute ischaemic...
Highly targeted electrical stimulation to the brain has shown promise as a treatment option for acute ischaemic stroke, according to a pilot study led by University...
Evidence indicates effectiveness of brain stimulation in upper-limb stroke rehabilitation
Moderate- to high-quality evidence suggests that specific neuromodulation modalities can provide effective treatments in patients undergoing stroke rehabilitation. As per a systematic review and...
Randomised trial finds active tDCS to be effective treatment in women...
A randomised, triple-blinded clinical trial involving 35 women has found that active transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)—delivered at an intensity of 2mA and across...
HD-RECOVERY: Brain stimulation improves COVID-19 outcomes in randomised trial
In the randomised HD-RECOVERY clinical trial, the use of high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) has been found to be associated with a statistically...
Self-administered tDCS reduces knee osteoarthritis pain in older adult patients
Home-based, self-administered transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has demonstrated feasibility, acceptability and significant reductions in clinical pain intensity in older adults with knee osteoarthritis,...
Ybrain receives Translational Research Award for tDCS technology
Ybrain recently received the Translational Research Award at this year's Neuroergonomics and NYC Neuromodulation Conferences (28 July–1 August, New York City, USA) for its transcranial direct...
Randomised data support use of tDCS in Parkinson’s patients with Pisa...
Data from a randomised controlled trial (RCT), which have been published in Frontiers in Neurology, support the use of neuromodulation with transcranial direct current...
Neuromodulation offers hope for patients with long-COVID
With increasing focus being placed on the long-term impact COVID-19 can have, and the demand for effective treatments also growing concurrently, Marom Bikson (New...
Multisession tDCS alongside cognitive remediation promotes social functioning in autism patients
In a randomised, sham-controlled clinical trial, multisession transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) paired with concurrent cognitive remediation training has been shown to promote social...
Neuromodulation for post-stroke recovery advancing on several fronts
As a principal investigator for the pivotal VNS-REHAB study, which supported the first US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) premarket approval of a vagus...
FDA approves launch of “largest clinical trial to date” for tDCS...
Flow Neuroscience, which claims to be the creator of Europe’s first medically approved brain stimulation device to treat depression at home, has received full...
Flow Neuroscience receives Series A funding to advance tDCS depression treatment
Flow Neuroscience, the creator of what is currently Europe’s only medically approved transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) device and behavioural therapy app for depression,...
How stimulation is changing the future of mental health treatment
Daniel Månsson (Flow Neuroscience, Malmö, Sweden) outlines the benefits held by transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) in the treatment of depression—and how clinical evidence supporting...
rTMS found to be “well-accepted” for therapeutic use in psychiatric populations
Psychiatric populations perceive the therapeutic use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for mental health conditions to be beneficial, safe, and no more dangerous...
Future stroke rehabilitation could include robotic therapy
At the North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS) virtual meeting (15–16 January), Dylan J Edwards, director of the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute and director of...
Good news for gamblers: Transcranial direct current stimulation found to enhance...
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) offers a novel intervention for individuals with gambling disorder, concluded a recent study that found that its use enhanced...
