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Methods and strategies of tDCS for the treatment of pain: current status and future directions.

Kevin Pacheco-BarriosAlejandra Cardenas-RojasAurore ThibautBeatriz CostaIsadora Santos FerreiraWolnei CaumoFelipe Fregni
Published in: Expert review of medical devices (2020)
It has been shown that the stimulation of the prefrontal and primary motor cortex is efficient for pain reduction while a few other new strategies, such as high-intensity tDCS and network-based tDCS, are believed to induce strong neuroplastic effects, although the underlying neural mechanisms still need to be fully uncovered. Hence, conventional tDCS approaches demonstrated promising effects to manage pain and new strategies are under development to enhance tDCS effects and make this approach more easily available by using, for instance, home-based devices.
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