Prefrontal transcranial direct-current stimulation improves early technical skills in surgery

Background: Studies applying transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) to motor regions to enhance surgical skills have observed modest benefits in performance. Early surgical skills acquisition is known to be dependent on the prefrontal cortex (PFC) which could be a suitable target for perform...

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Main Authors: James Ashcroft, Ronak Patel, Adam J. Woods, Ara Darzi, Harsimrat Singh, Daniel R. Leff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-11-01
Series:Brain Stimulation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1935861X20302801