Modulation of self-appraisal of illness, medication adherence, life quality and autonomic functioning by transcranial direct current stimulation in schizophrenia patients.
CONCLUSION: Fronto-temporal tDCS briefly optimizes self-reported insight levels, beliefs about treatment adherence, and psychological domain of life quality in patients with schizophrenia. Further studies are required to confirm whether patients treated with 5-day, 10-session tDCS in combination with multisession "maintenance" stimulation every month would attain favourable outcomes.
SIGNIFICANCE: We provide novel evidence for the potential utility of tDCS in schizophrenia.
PMID: 32299763 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Neurophysiology - Category: Neurology Authors: Kao YC, Tzeng NS, Chao CY, Chang CC, Chang HA Tags: Clin Neurophysiol Source Type: research
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