Table 3.
Reference | Significant changes in primary clinical outcome? | rsFC changes correlated with primary clinical outcome? | Montage placement | Between-group contrast in rsFC | |||||
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Anode | Cathode | Delta | Theta | Alpha | Beta | Gamma | |||
Nicolo et al60 | No | No | Ipsilesional supraorbital region | Contralesional M1 | n.r. | n.r. | Weighted node degree of M1: n.s. | Weighted node degree of M1: A > S (t24 = 2.78, P = .01) | n.r. |
De Ridder and Vanneste49 | Yes | Yes | L occipital lobe | R occipital lobe | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | A > S (t-value n.r.; P < .05) | A > S (t-value n.r.; P < .05) |
Cosmo et al58 | N/A | N/A | L DLPFC | R DLPFC | Whole-brain weighted node degree: n.s. (U = 319.00; P = .92) | ||||
Porcaro et al54 | Yes | Yes | Primary sensory cortex | Occipital lobe | Treatment (pre,post) × condition (real,sham): F(1,11) = 13.235, P = .004 | ||||
Post-hoc t-test: increase of FC between L and R M1 was significant (P = .0002), while remained non-significant for sham (P = .274) | |||||||||
Schoellmann et al55 | Yes | n.r. | L primary motor cortex | R supraorbital region | n.r. | n.r. | n.r. | n.s. (t-value n.r.; P > .05) | n.r |
Thibaut et al61 | Yes | n.r. | Bilateral DLPFC | Bilateral M1 | n.s. | n.s. | n.s. | A > S; C3 to C4 (t27 = 2.56, P = .02) | n.r. |
A > S; C4 to F3 (t27 = 2.30, P = .04) | |||||||||
Wu et al63 | No | n.r. | L DLPFC | R supraorbital region | A > S (t-value n.r.; P < .05) | ||||
R DLPFC | L supraorbital region | n.s. |
Abbreviations: A, active-tDCS; DLPFC, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex; F3, labeling in the EEG 10 to 20 system; L, left; M1, primary motor cortex; n.r., not reported; n.s., non-significant; N/A, not applicable; R, right; rsFC, resting state functional connectivity; S, Sham-tDCS.