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Cristiana Varuzza

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Evidence for reading improvement following tDCS treatment in children and adolescents with Dyslexia.

2016

Purpose There is evidence that non-invasive brain stimulation transitorily modulates reading by facilitating the neural pathways underactive in individuals with dyslexia. The study aimed at investigating whether multiple sessions of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) would enhance reading abilities of children and adolescents with dyslexia and whether the effect is long-lasting. Methods Eighteen children and adolescents with dyslexia received three 20-minute sessions a week for 6 weeks (18 sessions) of left anodal/right cathodal tDCS set at 1 mA over parieto-temporal regions combined with a cognitive training. The participants were randomly assigned to the active or the sham tre…

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Reading changes in children and adolescents with dyslexia after transcranial direct current stimulation.

2016

Noninvasive brain stimulation offers the possibility to induce changes in cortical excitability and it is an interesting option as a remediation tool for the treatment of developmental disorders. This study aimed to investigate the effect of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on reading and reading-related skills of children and adolescents with dyslexia. Nineteen children and adolescents with dyslexia performed different reading and reading-related tasks (word, nonword, and text reading; lexical decision; phonemic blending; verbal working memory; rapid automatized naming) in a baseline condition without tDCS and after 20 min of exposure to three different tDCS conditions: left …

anodal; cathodal; developmental; dyslexics; parietotemporal cortex; transcranial direct current stimulation; adolescent; child; dyslexia; female; humans; male; transcranial direct current stimulation; reading; neuroscienceMalemedicine.medical_specialtyAdolescentmedicine.medical_treatmentmedia_common.quotation_subjectAudiologyTranscranial Direct Current Stimulation050105 experimental psychologyLateralization of brain functiontDCSNOneuroscienceDyslexia03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineReading (process)medicineLexical decision taskdevelopmentalHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesChildRapid automatized namingmedia_commonTranscranial direct-current stimulationSettore M-PSI/02 - Psicobiologia E Psicologia FisiologicaWorking memoryGeneral Neuroscience05 social sciencesDyslexiaanodalmedicine.diseasedyslexicsReadingBrain stimulationparietotemporal cortexFemalecathodalPsychology030217 neurology & neurosurgeryCognitive psychologyNeuroreport
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