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Chen X, You J, Ma H, Zhou M, Huang C. Transcranial pulse stimulation in Alzheimer's disease. CNS Neurosci Ther 2024; 30:e14372. [PMID: 37469252 PMCID: PMC10848065 DOI: 10.1111/cns.14372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2023] [Revised: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 07/07/2023] [Indexed: 07/21/2023] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND Transcranial pulse stimulation (TPS) is a novel noninvasive ultrasonic brain stimulation that can increase cortical and corticospinal excitability, induce neuroplasticity, and increase functional connectivity within the brain. Several trials have confirmed its potential in treating Alzheimer's disease (AD). OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect and safety of TPS on AD. DESIGN A systematic review. METHODS PubMed, Embase via Ovid, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), VIP (China Science and Technology Journal Database), and WanFang were searched from inception to April 1, 2023. Study selection, data extraction, and quality evaluation of the studies were conducted by two reviewers independently, with any controversy resolved by consensus. The Methodological Index for Nonrandomized Studies was used to assess the risk of bias. RESULTS Five studies were included in this review, with a total of 99 patients with AD. For cognitive performance, TPS significantly improved the scores of the CERAD (Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease) test battery, Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale (cognitive), Montreal Cognitive Assessment, and Mini-Mental Status Examination. For depressive symptoms, TPS significantly reduced the scores of the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale (affective), Geriatric Depression Score, and Beck Depression Inventory. By functional magnetic resonance imaging, studies have shown that TPS improved cognitive performance in AD patients by increasing functional connectivity in the hippocampus, parahippocampal cortex, precuneus, and parietal cortex, and activating cortical activity in the bilateral hippocampus. TPS alleviated depressive symptoms in AD patients by decreasing functional connectivity between the ventromedial network (left frontal orbital cortex) and the salience network (right anterior insula). Adverse events in this review, including headache, worsening mood, jaw pain, nausea, and drowsiness, were reversible and lasted no longer than 1 day. No serious adverse events or complications were observed. CONCLUSIONS TPS is promising in improving cognitive performance and reducing depressive symptoms in patients with AD. TPS may be a safe adjunct therapy in the treatment of AD. However, these findings lacked a sham control and were limited by the small sample size of the included studies. Further research may be needed to better explore the potential of TPS. PATIENT AND PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT Patients and the public were not involved in this study.
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- Xinxin Chen
- Department of Rehabilitation MedicineWest China HospitalSichuan UniversityChengduSichuanChina
- Key Laboratory of Rehabilitation Medicine in Sichuan ProvinceWest China HospitalSichuan UniversityChengduSichuanChina
- School of Rehabilitation SciencesWest China School of MedicineSichuan UniversityChengduSichuanChina
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- Department of Rehabilitation MedicineWest China HospitalSichuan UniversityChengduSichuanChina
- Key Laboratory of Rehabilitation Medicine in Sichuan ProvinceWest China HospitalSichuan UniversityChengduSichuanChina
- School of Rehabilitation SciencesWest China School of MedicineSichuan UniversityChengduSichuanChina
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- Department of Rehabilitation MedicineWest China HospitalSichuan UniversityChengduSichuanChina
- Key Laboratory of Rehabilitation Medicine in Sichuan ProvinceWest China HospitalSichuan UniversityChengduSichuanChina
- School of Rehabilitation SciencesWest China School of MedicineSichuan UniversityChengduSichuanChina
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- Department of Rehabilitation MedicineWest China HospitalSichuan UniversityChengduSichuanChina
- Key Laboratory of Rehabilitation Medicine in Sichuan ProvinceWest China HospitalSichuan UniversityChengduSichuanChina
- School of Rehabilitation SciencesWest China School of MedicineSichuan UniversityChengduSichuanChina
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- Department of Rehabilitation MedicineWest China HospitalSichuan UniversityChengduSichuanChina
- Key Laboratory of Rehabilitation Medicine in Sichuan ProvinceWest China HospitalSichuan UniversityChengduSichuanChina
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Becker R, Hervais-Adelman A. Individual theta-band cortical entrainment to speech in quiet predicts word-in-noise comprehension. Cereb Cortex Commun 2023; 4:tgad001. [PMID: 36726796 PMCID: PMC9883620 DOI: 10.1093/texcom/tgad001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2022] [Revised: 12/17/2022] [Accepted: 12/18/2022] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
Abstract
Speech elicits brain activity time-locked to its amplitude envelope. The resulting speech-brain synchrony (SBS) is thought to be crucial to speech parsing and comprehension. It has been shown that higher speech-brain coherence is associated with increased speech intelligibility. However, studies depending on the experimental manipulation of speech stimuli do not allow conclusion about the causality of the observed tracking. Here, we investigate whether individual differences in the intrinsic propensity to track the speech envelope when listening to speech-in-quiet is predictive of individual differences in speech-recognition-in-noise, in an independent task. We evaluated the cerebral tracking of speech in source-localized magnetoencephalography, at timescales corresponding to the phrases, words, syllables and phonemes. We found that individual differences in syllabic tracking in right superior temporal gyrus and in left middle temporal gyrus (MTG) were positively associated with recognition accuracy in an independent words-in-noise task. Furthermore, directed connectivity analysis showed that this relationship is partially mediated by top-down connectivity from premotor cortex-associated with speech processing and active sensing in the auditory domain-to left MTG. Thus, the extent of SBS-even during clear speech-reflects an active mechanism of the speech processing system that may confer resilience to noise.
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- Robert Becker
- Corresponding author: Neurolinguistics, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich (UZH), Zurich, Switzerland.
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- Neurolinguistics, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Zurich 8050, Switzerland,Neuroscience Center Zurich, University of Zurich and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
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Keitel C, Ruzzoli M, Dugué L, Busch NA, Benwell CSY. Rhythms in cognition: The evidence revisited. Eur J Neurosci 2022; 55:2991-3009. [PMID: 35696729 PMCID: PMC9544967 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2022] [Revised: 05/27/2022] [Accepted: 05/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL), Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain.,Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain
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- Université Paris Cité, INCC UMR 8002, CNRS, Paris, France.,Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Paris, France
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- Institute for Psychology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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Barra A, Rosenfelder M, Mortaheb S, Carrière M, Martens G, Bodien YG, Morales-Quezada L, Bender A, Laureys S, Thibaut A, Fregni F. Transcranial Pulsed-Current Stimulation versus Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness: A Pilot, Sham-Controlled Cross-Over Double-Blind Study. Brain Sci 2022; 12:429. [PMID: 35447961 PMCID: PMC9031379 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12040429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2022] [Revised: 03/09/2022] [Accepted: 03/11/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) over the prefrontal cortex can improve signs of consciousness in patients in a minimally conscious state. Transcranial pulsed-current stimulation (tPCS) over the mastoids can modulate brain activity and connectivity in healthy controls. This study investigated the feasibility of tPCS as a therapeutic tool in patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) and compared its neurophysiological and behavioral effects with prefrontal tDCS. This pilot study was a randomized, double-blind sham-controlled clinical trial with three sessions: bi-mastoid tPCS, prefrontal tDCS, and sham. Electroencephalography (EEG) and behavioral assessments were collected before and after each stimulation session. Post minus pre differences were compared using Kruskal-Wallis and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests. Twelve patients with DoC were included in the study (eight females, four traumatic brain injury, 50.3 ± 14 y.o., 8.8 ± 10.5 months post-injury). We did not observe any side-effects following tPCS, nor tDCS, and confirmed their feasibility and safety. We did not find a significant effect of the stimulation on EEG nor behavioral outcomes for tPCS. However, consistent with prior findings, our exploratory analyses suggest that tDCS induces behavioral improvements and an increase in theta frontal functional connectivity.
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- Alice Barra
- Coma Science Group, GIGA Consciousness-GIGA Research, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium; (A.B.); (S.M.); (M.C.); (G.M.); (S.L.)
- Centre du Cerveau, University Hospital of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; (Y.G.B.); (L.M.-Q.)
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- Department of Neurology, Therapiezentrum Burgau, Kapuzinerstrasse 34, 89331 Burgau, Germany; (M.R.); (A.B.)
- Clinical and Biological Psychology, Institute of Psychology and Education, Ulm University, 89081 Ulm, Germany
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- Coma Science Group, GIGA Consciousness-GIGA Research, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium; (A.B.); (S.M.); (M.C.); (G.M.); (S.L.)
- Physiology of Cognition Lab, GIGA-Consciousness, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Coma Science Group, GIGA Consciousness-GIGA Research, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium; (A.B.); (S.M.); (M.C.); (G.M.); (S.L.)
- Centre du Cerveau, University Hospital of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
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- Coma Science Group, GIGA Consciousness-GIGA Research, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium; (A.B.); (S.M.); (M.C.); (G.M.); (S.L.)
- Centre du Cerveau, University Hospital of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; (Y.G.B.); (L.M.-Q.)
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; (Y.G.B.); (L.M.-Q.)
- Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; (Y.G.B.); (L.M.-Q.)
- Neuromodulation Center, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA;
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- Department of Neurology, Therapiezentrum Burgau, Kapuzinerstrasse 34, 89331 Burgau, Germany; (M.R.); (A.B.)
- Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU), 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Coma Science Group, GIGA Consciousness-GIGA Research, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium; (A.B.); (S.M.); (M.C.); (G.M.); (S.L.)
- Centre du Cerveau, University Hospital of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
- Joint International Research Unit on Consciousness, CERVO Brain Research Centre CIUSS, University Laval, Quebec, QC G1E1T2, Canada
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- Coma Science Group, GIGA Consciousness-GIGA Research, University of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium; (A.B.); (S.M.); (M.C.); (G.M.); (S.L.)
- Centre du Cerveau, University Hospital of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium
- Neuromodulation Center, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA;
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- Neuromodulation Center, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA;
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Erkens J, Schulte M, Vormann M, Wilsch A, Herrmann CS. Hearing Impaired Participants Improve More Under Envelope-Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation When Signal to Noise Ratio Is High. Neurosci Insights 2021; 16:2633105520988854. [PMID: 33709079 PMCID: PMC7907945 DOI: 10.1177/2633105520988854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Accepted: 12/31/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
An issue commonly expressed by hearing aid users is a difficulty to understand speech in complex hearing scenarios, that is, when speech is presented together with background noise or in situations with multiple speakers. Conventional hearing aids are already designed with these issues in mind, using beamforming to only enhance sound from a specific direction, but these are limited in solving these issues as they can only modulate incoming sound at the cochlear level. However, evidence exists that age-related hearing loss might partially be caused later in the hearing processes due to brain processes slowing down and becoming less efficient. In this study, we tested whether it would be possible to improve the hearing process at the cortical level by improving neural tracking of speech. The speech envelopes of target sentences were transformed into an electrical signal and stimulated onto elderly participants' cortices using transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS). We compared 2 different signal to noise ratios (SNRs) with 5 different delays between sound presentation and stimulation ranging from 50 ms to 150 ms, and the differences in effects between elderly normal hearing and elderly hearing impaired participants. When the task was performed at a high SNR, hearing impaired participants appeared to gain more from envelope-tACS compared to when the task was performed at a lower SNR. This was not the case for normal hearing participants. Furthermore, a post-hoc analysis of the different time-lags suggest that elderly were significantly better at a stimulation time-lag of 150 ms when the task was presented at a high SNR. In this paper, we outline why these effects are worth exploring further, and what they tell us about the optimal tACS time-lag.
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- Jules Erkens
- Department of Psychology, Cluster of
Excellence “Hearing4All,” European Medical School, Carl von Ossietzky University,
Oldenburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Cluster of
Excellence “Hearing4All,” European Medical School, Carl von Ossietzky University,
Oldenburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, Cluster of
Excellence “Hearing4All,” European Medical School, Carl von Ossietzky University,
Oldenburg, Germany
- Research Center Neurosensory Science,
Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany
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Ronconi L, Melcher D, Junghöfer M, Wolters CH, Busch NA. Testing the effect of tACS over parietal cortex in modulating endogenous alpha rhythm and temporal integration windows in visual perception. Eur J Neurosci 2020; 55:3438-3450. [PMID: 33098112 PMCID: PMC9542321 DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Revised: 10/14/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Abstract
Neural oscillations in the alpha band (8-12 Hz) have been proposed as a key mechanism for the temporal resolution of visual perception. Higher alpha frequencies have been related to improved segregation of visual events over time, whereas lower alpha frequencies have been related to improved temporal integration. Similarly, also the phase of ongoing alpha has been shown to correlate with temporal integration/segregation. To test a causal relationship between alpha oscillations and perception, we here employed multi-channel transcranial alternating current stimulation (mc-tACS) over the right parietal cortex, whereas participants performed a visual temporal integration/segregation task that used identical stimuli with different instructions. Before and after mc-tACS we recorded the resting-state electroencephalogram (EEG) to extract the individual alpha frequency (IAF) and delivered electrical stimulation at slightly slower and faster frequencies (IAF±2 Hz). We hypothesized that this would not only drive endogenous alpha rhythms, but also affect temporal integration and segregation in an opposite way. However, the mc-tACS protocol used here did not consistently increase or decrease the IAF after the stimulation and did not affect temporal integration/segregation accuracy as expected. Although we found some preliminary evidence for an influence of tACS phase on temporal integration accuracy, the ongoing phase of mc-tACS oscillations did not reliably modulate temporal integration/segregation accuracy in a sinusoidal way as would have been predicted by an effective entrainment of brain oscillations. These findings may guide future studies using different stimulation montages for investigating the role of cortical alpha oscillations for human vision.
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- Luca Ronconi
- School of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.,Division of Neuroscience, Scientific Institute IRCCS San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.,Center for Mind/Brain Sciences and Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy
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- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences and Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto, Italy.,Department of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.,Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.,Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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- Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.,Institute of Psychology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
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