Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) combined with cognitive training in adolescent boys with ADHD: a double-blind, randomised, sham-controlled trial

CONCLUSIONS: This rigorous and largest RCT of tDCS in adolescent boys with ADHD found no evidence of improved ADHD symptoms or cognitive performance following multi-session anodal tDCS over rIFC combined with CT. These findings extend limited meta-analytic evidence of cognitive and clinical effects in ADHD after 1-5 tDCS sessions over mainly left dlPFC. Given that tDCS is commercially and clinically available, the findings are important as they suggest that rIFC stimulation may not be indicated as a neurotherapy for cognitive or clinical remediation for ADHD.PMID:34225830 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291721001859

Source: Psychological Medicine - July 6, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Samuel J Westwood Marion Criaud Sheut-Ling Lam Steve Lukito Sophie Wallace-Hanlon Olivia S Kowalczyk Afroditi Kostara Joseph Mathew Deborah Agbedjro Bruce E Wexler Roi Cohen Kadosh Philip Asherson Katya Rubia Source Type: research