The Effect of a Single Session of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Attention in Pediatric Acquired Brain Injury: Characterizing Interindividual Structural and Functional Network Response Variability

• Published in: Pediatric neurology Vol. 170; pp. 133 - 145
• Main Authors: Stein, Athena, Caulfield, Kevin A., Singh, Mervyn, Riddle, Justin, Friehs, Maximilian A., Craven, Michael P., Groom, Madeleine J., Iyer, Kartik K., Barlow, Karen M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.09.2025
• Subjects: Adolescent; Attention; Attention - physiology; Brain Injuries - complications; Brain Injuries - diagnostic imaging; Brain Injuries - physiopathology; Brain Injuries - therapy; Child; Connectome; Diffusion Tensor Imaging; Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex - diagnostic imaging; Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex - physiopathology; E-field; Electroencephalography; Female; Functional connectivity; HD-EEG; Humans; Male; Nerve Net - diagnostic imaging; Nerve Net - physiopathology; Pediatric; Single-Blind Method; Stroke; tDCS; Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation - methods; Traumatic brain injury; Functional connectivity; Stroke; Traumatic brain injury; E-field; tDCS; HD-EEG; Attention; Pediatric

Approximately one in four children who sustain an acquired brain injury (ABI) have attention difficulties impacting education, employment, and community participation. These difficulties arise from dysfunction in attention-related brain networks, incentivizing the use of transcranial direct current...