A well-designed meta-analysis can provide valuable information for researchers, clinicians,
policy-makers and the general public by summarizing years of research in a field.
These analyses can be highly influential, and thus it is critical that they be performed
carefully. A recent meta-analysis by Horvath, Forte, and Carter (in press) [
[1]
] set out to determine whether a single-session of transcranial direct current stimulation
(tDCS) affects cognition in healthy adults.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
Purchase one-time access:
Academic & Personal: 24 hour online accessCorporate R&D Professionals: 24 hour online accessOne-time access price info
- For academic or personal research use, select 'Academic and Personal'
- For corporate R&D use, select 'Corporate R&D Professionals'
Subscribe:
Subscribe to Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in NeuromodulationAlready a print subscriber? Claim online access
Already an online subscriber? Sign in
Register: Create an account
Institutional Access: Sign in to ScienceDirect
References
Horvath, J.C., J.D. Forte, O. Carter. Quantitative Review finds no evidence of cognitive effects in healthy populations from single-session transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Brain Stimul [in press].
- Noninvasive brain stimulation improves language learning.J Cogn Neurosci. 2008; 20: 1415-1422
- Electrode montage dependent effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on semantic fluency.Behav Brain Res. 2013; 248: 129-135
- Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation of the prefrontal cortex enhances complex verbal associative thought.J Cogn Neurosci. 2009; 21: 1980-1987
- Naming facilitation induced by transcranial direct current stimulation.Behav Brain Res. 2010; 208: 311-318
- Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on behaviour and electrophysiology of language production.Neuropsychologia. 2011; 49: 3989-3998
- Transcranial direct current stimulation improves word retrieval in healthy and nonfluent aphasic subjects.J Cogn Neurosci. 2011; 23: 2309-2323
- Shaping memory accuracy by left prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation.J Neurosci. 2014; 34: 4022-4026
- Cochrane handbook for systematic reviews of interventions. The Cochrane Collaboration.John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, UK2008
- Conducting quantitative synthesis when comparing medical interventions: AHRQ and the Effective Health Care Program.J Clin Epidemiol. 2011; 64: 1187-1197
Article Info
Publication History
Published online: March 30, 2015
Received:
March 7,
2015
Identification
Copyright
© 2015 Elsevier Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
ScienceDirect
Access this article on ScienceDirectLinked Article
- New Quantitative Analyses Following Price & Hamilton's Critique do not Change Original Findings of Horvath et al.Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in NeuromodulationVol. 8Issue 3
- PreviewI would like to thank Drs. Price and Hamilton for their letter concerning some of the methodological decisions made in our recent review paper [1]. Before I address the general issues brought up, there are several factual errors in the letter that I fear may mislead readers. To avoid confusion, I will quickly outline them here (note: all effect sizes reported below are followed by a 95% CI in brackets).
- Full-Text
- Preview
