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Transcranial direct current stimulation
Part of: Neuromodulation
What belongs here
Weak direct current through the scalp in people with spinal cord injury.
What does not belong here, however close it looks
Direct current applied over the spine is transcutaneous spinal stimulation.
What has been looked at
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- Registered or indexed as work in people: 127 records · 2006–2026
- Indexed as work in animals: 9 records · 2015–2025
- The source has not said who or what was studied: 70 records · 2003–2026
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206 records
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Registered or indexed as work in people
- Improving Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Interventions by Retraining the Brain With Stimulation — ClinicalTrials.gov · 2011 · Interventional · Completed
- Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) and Visual Illusion on Chronic Pain Due to Spinal Cord Injury — ClinicalTrials.gov · 2010 · Interventional · Terminated
- Effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation and visual illusion on neuropathic pain in spinal cord injury. — PubMed · 2010 · Journal Article
- Application of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Patients With Chronic Pain After Spinal Cord Injury — ClinicalTrials.gov · 2010 · Interventional · Terminated
- Chronic Pain and Brain Activity in Spinal Cord Injury — ClinicalTrials.gov · 2009 · Observational · Completed
- The Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Central Pain in Patients With Spinal Cord Injury — ClinicalTrials.gov · 2008 · Interventional · Completed
- A sham-controlled, phase II trial of transcranial direct current stimulation for the treatment of central pain in traumatic spinal cord injury. — PubMed · 2006 · Clinical Trial, Phase II
Indexed as work in animals
- Transcranial alternating current stimulation inhibits ferroptosis and promotes functional recovery in spinal cord injury via the cGMP-PKG signalling pathway. — PubMed · 2025 · Journal Article
- Neuromodulation with transcranial direct current stimulation contributes to motor function recovery via microglia in spinal cord injury. — PubMed · 2024 · Journal Article
- The plasticity of nerve fibers: the prolonged effects of polarization of afferent fibers. — PubMed · 2021 · Journal Article
- Dual motor cortex and spinal cord neuromodulation improves rehabilitation efficacy and restores skilled locomotor function in a rat cervical contusion injury model. — PubMed · 2021 · Journal Article
- The effects of walking training onset on motor evoked potentials after acute spinal cord injury. — PubMed · 2020 · Journal Article
- Anti-repulsive guidance molecule-a antibody treatment and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation have synergistic effects on motor recovery after spinal cord injury. — PubMed · 2019 · Journal Article
- Characterization of Motor and Somatosensory Evoked Potentials in the Yucatan Micropig Using Transcranial and Epidural Stimulation. — PubMed · 2017 · Journal Article
- Longitudinal Evaluation of Residual Cortical and Subcortical Motor Evoked Potentials in Spinal Cord Injured Rats. — PubMed · 2016 · Journal Article
- Improved differentiation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells and neurological function after spinal cord injury in rats by oscillating field stimulation. — PubMed · 2015 · Journal Article
The source has not said who or what was studied
- Functional near-infrared spectroscopy: Systematic mapping of abnormal brain function features in neurological disorders. — PubMed · 2026 · Journal Article
- Harnessing Spinal Cord Stimulation and Neuromodulation for Functional Restoration: From Pain Management to Motor Recovery. — PubMed · 2026 · Journal Article
- Cortical connectivity reorganization Induced by tDCS and Robotic-Assisted gait training in individuals with spinal cord injury. — PubMed · 2026 · Letter
- Treatment of chronic fatigue by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) — Crossref · 2025 · dataset
- Therapeutic Effects of Noninvasive Technology Modalities on Lower-Limb Motor Function in Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review. — PubMed · 2025 · Journal Article
- Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on pain and pain-related outcomes: an umbrella review. — PubMed · 2025 · Journal Article
- Differential effects of conventional transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) of the cerebellum on offset analgesia — Crossref · 2024 · posted-content
- Effect of transcranial direct current stimulation on supernumerary phantom limb pain in spinal cord injured patient: A case report. — PubMed · 2024 · Case Reports
- From brain to spinal cord: neuromodulation by direct current stimulation and its promising effects as a treatment option for restless legs syndrome. — PubMed · 2024 · Journal Article
- Effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Lower Extremity Muscle Strength, Quality of Life, and Functional Recovery in Individuals With Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: A Randomized Controlled Study. — PubMed · 2024 · Journal Article
- Impact of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Neuropathic Pain in Patients with Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury: A Review — Crossref · 2024 · journal-article
- A Systematic Review of the Interventions for Management of Pain in Patients After Spinal Cord Injury. — PubMed · 2023 · Journal Article
- Gait Recovery in Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review with Metanalysis Involving New Rehabilitative Technologies. — PubMed · 2023 · Journal Article
- Transcranial direct current stimulation regulates phenotypic transformation of microglia to relieve neuropathic pain induced by spinal cord injury. — PubMed · 2023 · Journal Article
- Narrative review of current neuromodulation modalities for spinal cord injury. — PubMed · 2023 · Journal Article
- Altered functional connectivity between primary motor cortex subregions and the whole brain in patients with incomplete cervical spinal cord injury. — PubMed · 2022 · Journal Article
- Corticospinal circuit neuroplasticity may involve silent synapses: Implications for functional recovery facilitated by neuromodulation after spinal cord injury. — PubMed · 2022 · Journal Article
- The effects of robot-assisted gait training combined with non-invasive brain stimulation on lower limb function in patients with stroke and spinal cord injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis. — PubMed · 2022 · Systematic Review
- Walking and Balance Outcomes Are Improved Following Brief Intensive Locomotor Skill Training but Are Not Augmented by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Persons With Chronic Spinal Cord Injury. — PubMed · 2022 · Journal Article
- Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in obsessive-compulsive disorder — Crossref · 2022 · dataset
- Non-invasive brain stimulation in rehabilitation. — PubMed · 2022 · Journal Article
- Non-invasive Brain Stimulation for Neuropathic Pain After Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis. — PubMed · 2022 · Systematic Review
- Transcranial direct current stimulation for spinal cord injury-associated neuropathic pain. — PubMed · 2021 · Journal Article
- Cerebellar and Spinal tDCS — Crossref · 2021 · book-chapter
- Motor cortical excitability behavior in chronic spinal cord injury neuropathic pain individuals submitted to transcranial direct current stimulation—case reports — Crossref · 2020 · journal-article
- Multimodal treatment for spinal cord injury: a sword of neuroregeneration upon neuromodulation. — PubMed · 2020 · Journal Article
- Thirty years of translational research in Mobility Medicine: Collection of abstracts of the 2020 Padua Muscle Days. — PubMed · 2020 · Journal Article
- Principles of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS): Introduction to the Biophysics of tDCS — Crossref · 2019 · book-chapter
- The effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on metabolite changes at the anterior cingulate cortex in neuropathic pain: a pilot study. — PubMed · 2018 · Journal Article
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) — Crossref · 2018 · book-chapter
- Non-invasive brain stimulation to promote motor and functional recovery following spinal cord injury. — PubMed · 2017 · Journal Article
- White matter changes in corticospinal tract associated with improvement in arm and hand functions in incomplete cervical spinal cord injury: pilot case series. — PubMed · 2017 · Journal Article
- Surgical Neurostimulation for Spinal Cord Injury. — PubMed · 2017 · Journal Article
- Priming Neural Circuits to Modulate Spinal Reflex Excitability. — PubMed · 2017 · Journal Article
- Effects of Combined Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) And Robotic-Assisted Arm Training (RAT) on the Main Motor, Sensory and Cerebellar Tracts in Spinal Cord Injury — Crossref · 2017 · journal-article
- Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Chronic Pain in Spinal Cord Injured Patients — Crossref · 2017 · journal-article
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Chronic Spinal Cord Injury: Quantitative EEG Study — Crossref · 2017 · journal-article
- Commentary: Non-invasive Brain Stimulation, a Tool to Revert Maladaptive Plasticity in Neuropathic Pain. — PubMed · 2016 · Journal Article
- Cerebellar and Spinal tDCS — Crossref · 2016 · book-chapter
- Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation (tDCS) — Crossref · 2016 · book-chapter
- Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Human Memory. — Crossref · 2014 · report
- P858: Modulation of motor cortex plasticity with transcranial direct current stimulation in spinal cord injury patients: intensity dependent quantitative EEG study — Crossref · 2014 · journal-article
- Outcomes in spasticity after repetitive transcranial magnetic and transcranial direct current stimulations. — PubMed · 2014 · Journal Article
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) — Crossref · 2012 · book-chapter
Where this was looked for, and when
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| ClinicalTrials.gov | asked, and it has nothing | asked on 2026-10-05 | the source found 0 · this programme has 34 · still to fetch 0 | aim: every record matching this question |
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| Crossref | asked, and it answered | asked on 2026-09-17 | the source found 2934752 · this programme has 49 | aim: a sample of the most relevant records. This source ranks a bag of words, so its own total is the size of the corpus that shares some of them, never a set still owed. |
| PubMed | asked, and it answered | asked on 2026-09-17 | the source found 132 · this programme has 132 · still to fetch 0 | aim: every record matching this question |
The question asked
- ClinicalTrials.gov
("transcranial direct current stimulation" OR "tDCS") - Crossref
spinal cord injury transcranial direct current stimulation tDCS - PubMed
("Spinal Cord Injuries"[MeSH Terms] OR "spinal cord injury"[Title/Abstract] OR "spinal cord injuries"[Title/Abstract] OR "spinal cord trauma"[Title/Abstract]) AND ("Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation"[MeSH Terms] OR "transcranial direct current stimulation"[Title/Abstract] OR "tDCS"[Title/Abstract])