Beyond the target area: an integrative view of tDCS-induced motor cortex modulation in patients and athletes.
Edgard Morya, Kátia Monte-Silva, Marom Bikson, Zeinab Esmaeilpour, Claudinei Eduardo Biazoli, Andre Fonseca, Tommaso Bocci, Faranak Farzan, Raaj Chatterjee, Jeffrey M Hausdorff, Daniel Gomes da Silva Machado, André Russowsky Brunoni, Eva Mezger, Luciane Aparecida Moscaleski, Rodrigo Pegado, João Ricardo Sato, Marcelo Salvador Caetano, Kátia Nunes Sá, Clarice Tanaka, Li Min Li, Abrahão Fontes Baptista, Alexandre Hideki Okano
PMID 31730494WHAT IT FOUND
This is a review of existing research on brain stimulation, not a new study.
It summarizes findings from other papers on motor recovery and pain, offering no direct evidence to change clinical practice.
What this paper is
This is a narrative review summarizing existing literature on transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) across various conditions. It does not report new data from a specific study, nor does it perform a systematic search or meta-analysis. As it synthesizes findings from other papers without original methods or results, there is no primary finding here to act on directly.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat the summaries of other studies within this review as new evidence. This paper has no original data, so it cannot confirm whether tDCS works for your specific patient population.