Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) recently was shown to benefit rehabilitation of patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC). However, high-Definition tDCS (HD-tDCS) has not been applied in DOC. In this study, we tried to use HD-tDCS protocol (2 mA, 20 min, the precuneus, and sustaining 14 days) to rehabilitate 11 patients with DOC. Electroencephalography (EEG) and Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) scores were recorded at before (T0), after a single session (T1), after 7 days' (T2), and 14 days' HD-tDCS (T3) to assess the modulation effects. EEG coherence was measured to evaluate functional connectivity during the experiment. It showed that 9 patients' scores increased compared with the baseline. The central-parietal coherence significantly decreased in the delta band in patients with DOC. EEG coherence might be useful for assessing the effect of HD-tDCS in patients with DOC. Long-lasting HD-tDCS over the precuneus is promising for the treatment of patients with DOC.
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Guo, Y., Bai, Y., Xia, X., Li, J., Wang, X., Dai, Y., … Zhang, H. (2019). Effects of long-lasting high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation in chronic disorders of consciousness: A pilot study. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13(APR). https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.00412
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