The effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on social cognition in schizophrenia: A preliminary study

Yuri Rassovsky; Walter Dunn; Jonathan Wynn; Allan D. Wu; Marco Iacoboni; Gerhard Hellemann; Michael F. Green

doi:10.1016/j.schres.2015.04.016

The effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on social cognition in schizophrenia: A preliminary study

Yuri Rassovsky, Walter Dunn, Jonathan Wynn, Allan D. Wu, Marco Iacoboni, Gerhard Hellemann, Michael F. Green

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Abstract

In this preliminary study, we examined the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on social cognition in 36 individuals with schizophrenia. Participants received a baseline assessment and one week later received either anodal, cathodal, or sham tDCS, with 12 participants randomized to each condition. A single 20-minute session tDCS was administered bilaterally over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (centered at positions Fp1 and Fp2) at 2. mA. Among the 4 social cognitive tasks, participants showed a significant improvement on one of them, emotion identification, following anodal stimulation. Findings demonstrate the safety of this procedure and suggest potential therapeutic effects on one aspect of social cognition in schizophrenia.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	171-174
Number of pages	4
Journal	Schizophrenia Research
Volume	165
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2015.04.016
State	Published - 1 Jul 2015

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Funding Information:
This study was supported by a NARSAD Independent Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation ( 22017 ). For generous support the authors also wish to thank the Brain Mapping Medical Research Organization, Brain Mapping Support Foundation, Pierson-Lovelace Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, William M. and Linda R. Dietel Philanthropic Fund at the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, Tamkin Foundation, Jennifer Jones-Simon Foundation, Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation, Robson Family and Northstar Fund. The project described was supported by Grant Numbers RR12169 , RR13642 and RR00865 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) , a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH); its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NCR or NIH.

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© 2015 Elsevier B.V.

Keywords

Neurocognition
Schizophrenia
Social cognition
TDCS
Transcranial direct current stimulation

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