Harleen Chhabra, Anushree Bose, Venkataram Shivakumar, Sri Mahavir Agarwal, Vanteemar S Sreeraj, Sonia Shenoy, Nandita Hazari, Damodharan Dinakaran, Rujuta Parlikar, Vinayak Koparde, Vinutha Ramesh, Jitendriya Biswal, Venkatachalam Murugaraja, Shayanth Manche Gowda, Prabhat K Chand, Palanimuthu T Sivakumar, Sunil V Kalmady, Janardhanan C Narayanaswamy, Pratima Murthy, Satish C Girimaji, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a non-invasive, neuromodulatory technique, is being increasingly applied to several psychiatric disorders. In this study, we describe the side-effect profile of repeated tDCS sessions (N = 2005) that were administered to 171 patients (156 adults and 15 adolescents) with different psychiatric disorders [schizophrenia [N = 109], obsessive-compulsive disorder [N = 28], alcohol dependence syndrome [N = 13], mild cognitive impairment [N = 10], depression [N = 6], dementia [N = 2] and other disorders [N = 3]]...
February 2020: Psychiatry Research