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The effect of cathodal tDCS on fear extinction: A cross-measures study.

Ana Ganho-ÁvilaÓscar F GonçalvesRaquel GuiomarPaulo Sérgio BoggioManish Kumar AsthanaAngelos-Miltiadis KrypotosJorge Almeida
Published in: PloS one (2019)
Cathodal tDCS may have enhanced long-term distinctiveness between threatening cues and perceptively similar neutral cues through a disambiguation process of the value of the neutral stimuli-a therapeutic target in anxiety disorders. Future studies should confirm these results and extend the study of cathodal tDCS effect on short term avoidance tendencies.
Keyphrases
  • transcranial direct current stimulation
  • working memory
  • prefrontal cortex