TABLE 2.
Clinical information of the subjects.
| Group | Subject | Sex | Age | Course (years) | Epileptic Discharge site | Cause | Seizure type | Epilepsy Syndrome | MRI Lesion | Cathode | Anode | Seizure frequency (baseline/follow-up) unit: times/4 weeks) | Response (Y/N) |
| Active | 1a | M | 30 | 17 | Focal | Birth asphyxia and brain surgery | Focal clonic seizure | Epilepsy attributed to structural causes | Softening of left parietal lobe | Between C3-FC1 | rSOc | 80/77 | N |
| 2a | M | 27 | 2 | Focal | Hippocampal sclerosis | Automatisms | Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis | Hippocampal sclerosis | F7 | rSO | 1/4 | N | |
| 3a | M | 54 | 40 | Focal | Trauma | Focal onset to bilateral tonic-clonic seizure | Frontal lobe epilepsy | None | F4 | P7 | 1/1 | N | |
| 4a | M | 54 | 40 | Focal | Trauma | Focal onset to bilateral tonic-clonic seizure | Frontal lobe epilepsy | None | F4 | P7 | 1/3 | N | |
| 5 | F | 37 | 6 | Focal | Gray matter heterotopia | Automatisms | Epilepsy attributed to heterotopia | Subependymal gray matter heterotopia | F7 | rSO | 3/1 | Y | |
| 6 | F | 41 | 2 | Focal | Hippocampal sclerosis | Behavior arrest | Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis | Hippocampal sclerosis | F7 | rSO | 10/14 | N | |
| 7 | F | 64 | 44 | Focal | Hippocampal sclerosis | Automatisms, and focal onset to bilateral tonic-clonic seizure | Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis | Hippocampal sclerosis | F8 | lSOd | 9/7 | Y | |
| 8a | F | 23 | 23 | Focal | Cryptogenic | Behavior arrest | Epilepsy of unknown cause | None | Between C3-F3 | rSO | 7/14 | N | |
| 9 | F | 28 | 10 | Multifocalb | Viral encephalitis | Focal onset to bilateral tonic-clonic seizure | Epilepsy attributed to infection | Bilateral temporal lobe atrophy | F7/F8 | rSO/lSO | 12/9 | Y | |
| 10a | F | 26 | 3 | Multifocalb | Gray matter heterotopia | Automatisms | Epilepsy attributed to heterotopia | Subependymal gray matter heterotopia | F7/F8 | rSO/lSO | 5/10 | N | |
| 11 | M | 30 | 26 | Focal | Focal cortical dysplasia | Focal onset to bilateral tonic-clonic seizure | Epilepsy attributed to focal cortical dysplasia | Focal cortical dysplasia in left frontal lobe | Between F4-Fz | P7 | 28/28 | N | |
| 12 | M | 64 | 10 | Focal | Trauma | Focal onset to bilateral tonic-clonic seizure | Epilepsy attributed to trauma | Softening of left temporal lobe | F7 | rSO | 1/0 | Y | |
| Sham | 13a | M | 30 | 17 | Focal | Hippocampal sclerosis | Automatisms | Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis | Hippocampal sclerosis | Between C3-FC1 | rSO | 56/66 | / |
| 14 | M | 47 | 16 | Focal | Trauma and cavernous hemangioma | Automatisms, and focal onset to bilateral tonic-clonic seizure | Epilepsy attributed to structural causes | Cavernous hemangioma | CP6 | lSO | 2/2 | / | |
| 15a | M | 27 | 2 | Focal | Focal cortical dysplasia | Focal onset to bilateral tonic-clonic seizure | Epilepsy attributed to focal cortical dysplasia | Focal cortical dysplasia in left frontal lobe | F7 | rSO | 3/2 | / | |
| 16 | F | 61 | 53 | Focal | Hippocampal sclerosis | Automatisms, and focal onset to bilateral tonic-clonic seizure | Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis | Hippocampal sclerosis | F7 | rSO | 6/8 | / | |
| 17 | F | 49 | 14 | Focal | Meningitis | Automatisms, and focal onset to bilateral tonic-clonic seizure | Epilepsy attributed to infection | White matter lesions | Between C4-P4 | lSO | 2/1 | / | |
| 18a | F | 23 | 23 | Focal | Cryptogenic | Behavior arrest | Epilepsy of unknown cause | None | Between C3-F3 | rSO | 14/9 | / | |
| 19 | F | 54 | 48 | Focal | Poisoning and hippocampal sclerosis | Automatisms, and focal onset to bilateral tonic-clonic seizure | Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis | Hippocampal sclerosis | F8 | lSO | 6/6 | / | |
| 20a | F | 26 | 3 | Multifocalb | Gray matter heterotopia | Automatisms | Epilepsy attributed to heterotopia | Subependymal gray matter heterotopia | F7/F8 | rSO/lSO | 6/4 | / |
aThese subjects underwent two ctDCS sessions with an interval of at least 12 weeks.
bThese subjects suffered from multifocal epilepsy. Each site was stimulated for 10 min per day.
crSO means the right supraorbital area.
dlSO means the left supraorbital area.