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Published on: November 9, 2019
Targeting the prefrontal-supplementary motor network with online and offline tDCS to modulate disgust: A single-blind
Parastoo Soltani1, Zekrollah Morovati1, Majid Yousefi Afrashteh1
1Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran.
Abstract:
In certain individuals, disgust experience is abnormally high. This heightened sensitivity serves as a cognitive component that can lead to dysfunction in neural circuits related to emotion processing and psychological disorders such as contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder. In this single-blind study, 36 individuals with high disgust sensitivity were randomly assigned to three groups: online, offline, and sham. The online group received intensified and repetitive transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) while performing a disgust image watching task, whereas the offline and sham groups performed the task at two time points: immediately before (pre-test) and immediately after (post-test) the stimulation session. The offline group received active tDCS, whereas the sham group received placebo tDCS to control for the interval duration. Anodal and cathodal stimulation was applied to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (l-DLPFC; F3) and pre-supplementary motor area (pre-SMA; FC2), respectively. The intervention consisted of 10 sessions of tDCS (2 sessions per day) over 5 days, with a stimulation intensity of 2 mA for 20 min and a 20-minute interval between sessions. The results showed a significant decrease in disgust experience in the online group compared to the offline group, while there was no significant difference between the online and sham groups. Although these findings suggest potential effects of tDCS combined with a task, further studies are necessary to confirm its efficacy.
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