Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Beşevler, 06500, Ankara, Turkey.
The Clinical Neurophysiology Division, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey.
Cerebellum. 2022 Dec;21(6):920-925. doi: 10.1007/s12311-021-01340-w. Epub 2021 Oct 30.
This study aimed to explore the role of the cerebellum on the somatosensory temporal discrimination (STD) process. Twenty healthy volunteers were enrolled in the study. Each participant was included in three different transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) sessions as anodal, cathodal, and sham sessions in randomised order. Anodal and cathodal cerebellar tDCS (cTDCS) were given for 20 min at an intensity of 2 mA. The results of the study indicate no effect of cTDCS on STD. Although the study results show that cTDCS does not affect STD, because of the restricted sample size of the study, it is useful and necessary to investigate this relationship more in depth in a larger healthy subject population using different cTDCS methodologies.
本研究旨在探索小脑在体感时间辨别（STD）过程中的作用。 20 名健康志愿者参与了这项研究。每个参与者以随机顺序被纳入三种不同的经颅直流电刺激（tDCS）疗程，即阳极、阴极和假刺激。在 2 mA 的强度下给予小脑阳极 tDCS（cTDCS）和阴极 tDCS 20 分钟。研究结果表明 cTDCS 对 STD 没有影响。尽管研究结果表明 cTDCS 不会影响 STD，但由于研究样本量有限，使用不同的 cTDCS 方法在更大的健康受试者群体中更深入地研究这种关系是有用且必要的。
