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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 4.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Neurophysiol. 2017 Jun 19;128(9):1774–1809. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2017.06.001

Table 8.

tDCS treatment for emergent mania or hypomania.

Patients Stimulation electrode position (polarity) Return electrode position (polarity) Current settings Session duration (minutes) Number of sessions AEs Reference
1 patient with unipolar depression F3 (A) Contralateral supraorbital (C) 1 mA, 0.029 mA/cm2 20 10 Hypomania (Arul-Anandam et al., 2010)
1 patient with unipolar depression F3 (A) F4 (C) 2 mA, 0.06 mA/cm2 30 5 Hypomania (Baccaro et al., 2010)
1 patient with unipolar depression F3 (A) F4 (C) 2 mA, 0.06 mA/cm2 30 5 Mania (Brunoni et al., 2011b)
1 patient with bipolar depression F3 (A) Contralateral arm (C) 2 mA 20 14 Hypomania (Galvez et al., 2011)
6 patients with unipolar depression F3 (A) F4 (C) 2 mA, 0.08 mA/cm2 30 12 4 hypomania and 2 mania (Brunoni et al., 2013a)
1 patient with bipolar depression F4 (C) 2 mA, 0.08 mA/cm2 30 12 Hypomania (Pereira Junior Bde et al., 2015)

tDCS: transcranial direct current stimulation, A: anode, C: cathode, AE: adverse events.