Brain Stimulation May Help with Fibromyalgia

“The present findings confirmed our hypotheses that active tDCS over the left DLPFC, compared with sham, can produce significant changes in the performance of a task that is related to three attentional networks,” write the authors in their discussion. “Specifically, the data show that [active] tDCS, compared with sham, led to increased performance in the orienting and executive attention networks. There was, however, no difference due to tDCS on the alerting attentional network.”

Lara C. Pullen, PhD, is a medical writer based in the Chicago area.

Reference

Silva AF, Zortea M, Carvalho S, et al. Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex modulates attention and pain in fibromyalgia: Randomized clinical trial. Sci Rep. 2017 Dec;7(1):135. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-00185-w. Epub 2017 Mar 9.

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