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Failure to Improve Verbal Fluency with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation.
Neuroscience ( IF 2.9 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-15 , DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.09.003
Jana Klaus 1 , Gesa Hartwigsen 1
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Previous studies in healthy populations have provided equivocal evidence whether the application of anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) over the left prefrontal cortex (PFC) can improve performance in verbal fluency tasks. In this double-blind, randomised within-participant study, we investigated whether anodal tDCS over the left PFC improves verbal fluency performance relative to sham tDCS. Forty eight healthy native German speakers performed two verbal fluency tasks after having received 20 min of anodal or sham tDCS over the left PFC. During stimulation, participants performed a picture naming task, which was expected to increase neuronal activity in the targeted region. We found no modulation of verbal fluency performance following anodal tDCS, with virtually identical overall scores across tDCS conditions. Furthermore, initiation time (i.e., time to produce the first correct utterance) was not affected by tDCS. As an unexpected finding, picture naming latencies were significantly longer during anodal compared to sham tDCS. Yet, changes in the naming task were not predictive of performance changes in the fluency task. Overall, the current study found no evidence that verbal fluency performance in healthy speakers could be improved by excitatory stimulation of the left PFC. We argue that previously observed positive effects could be false positives and should be interpreted with caution. The findings from the current study thus cast further doubt on the utility of tDCS in enhancing cognitive performance in the healthy (young) brain.



中文翻译:

经颅直流电刺激未能提高口语流利度。

先前在健康人群中进行的研究已提供了模棱两可的证据,即在左前额叶皮层(PFC)上应用阳极经颅直流电刺激(tDCS)是否可以改善言语流畅性。在这项参与研究的双盲,随机,双盲研究中,我们调查了相对于假tDCS而言,左侧PFC上的阳极tDCS是否能提高言语流畅性。在左PFC上接受了20分钟的阳极或假tDCS训练后,有48位健康的德语母语的人执行了两项口头流利的任务。在刺激过程中,参与者执行图片命名任务,这有​​望增加目标区域的神经元活动。我们发现,在阳极tDCS之后,没有对口语流利性能的调节,而在tDCS条件下的总体得分几乎相同。此外,初始时间(即产生第一次正确发声的时间)不受tDCS的影响。出乎意料的发现是,与假tDCS相比,阳极期间的图片命名延迟要长得多。但是,命名任务的更改并不能预测流利性任务的性能变化。总体而言,当前的研究没有发现通过兴奋性刺激左PFC可以改善健康说话者的口语表达能力。我们认为以前观察到的积极影响可能是假阳性,应谨慎解释。因此,当前研究的发现使人们进一步怀疑tDCS在增强健康(年轻)大脑的认知能力方面的效用。与假tDCS相比,阳极期间的图片命名延迟明显更长。但是,命名任务的更改并不能预测流利性任务的性能变化。总体而言,当前的研究没有发现通过兴奋性刺激左PFC可以改善健康说话者的口语表达能力。我们认为以前观察到的积极影响可能是假阳性,应谨慎解释。因此,当前研究的发现使人们进一步怀疑tDCS在增强健康(年轻)大脑认知能力方面的效用。与假tDCS相比,阳极期间的图片命名延迟明显更长。但是,命名任务的更改并不能预测流利性任务的性能变化。总体而言,当前的研究没有发现通过兴奋性刺激左PFC可以改善健康说话者的口语表达能力。我们认为以前观察到的积极影响可能是假阳性,应谨慎解释。因此,当前研究的发现使人们进一步怀疑tDCS在增强健康(年轻)大脑的认知能力方面的效用。当前的研究发现,没有证据表明通过兴奋性刺激左PFC可以改善健康说话者的口语表达能力。我们认为以前观察到的积极影响可能是假阳性,应谨慎解释。因此,当前研究的发现使人们进一步怀疑tDCS在增强健康(年轻)大脑认知能力方面的效用。当前的研究发现,没有证据表明通过兴奋性刺激左PFC可以改善健康说话者的口语表达能力。我们认为以前观察到的积极影响可能是假阳性,应谨慎解释。因此,当前研究的发现使人们进一步怀疑tDCS在增强健康(年轻)大脑认知能力方面的效用。

更新日期:2020-11-02
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