Abstract
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) was applied bilaterally over the auditory cortex in 12 schizophrenia patients to modulate early auditory processing. Performance on a tone discrimination task (tone-matching task—TMT) and auditory mismatch negativity were assessed after counterbalanced anodal, cathodal, and sham tDCS. Cathodal stimulation improved TMT performance (p < 0.03) compared to sham condition. Post-hoc analyses revealed a stimulation condition by negative symptom interaction in which greater negative symptoms were associated with a better TMT performance after anodal tDCS.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1145-1149 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Journal of Neural Transmission |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Sep 2017 |
Keywords
- Auditory processing
- Mismatch negativity
- Schizophrenia
- Tone-matching task
- Transcranial direct current stimulation
- tDCS
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Clinical Neurology
- Neurology
- Psychiatry and Mental health
- Biological Psychiatry