- Title
- Exploring sensory, motor, and pain responses as potential side or therapeutic effects of sub-2 mA, 400 Hz transcranial pulsed current stimulation
- Creator
- Jaberzadeh, Shapour; Zoghi, Maryam
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/199048
- Identifier
- vital:19142
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290137
- Identifier
- ISSN:1932-6203 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Background Various brain stimulation devices capable of generating high-frequency currents are readily available. However, our comprehension of the potential side or therapeutic effects associated with high-frequency transcranial pulsed current stimulation (tPCS), particularly concerning the new 400 Hz tPCS device, AscenZ-IV Stimulator, developed by AscenZion Neuromodulation Co. Pte. Ltd. in Singapore, remains incomplete. Objective This study examines preliminary parameters for the safe and comfortable application of 400 Hz tPCS at intensities below 2 mA. Methods In a cross-sectional study, 45 healthy participants underwent sub-2 mA 400 Hz tPCS to assess sensory, motor, and pain thresholds on the dominant side. Study 1 (N = 15) targeted the primary motor cortex of the right-hand area, while study 2 (N = 30) focused on the back of the right forearm. Results Study one showed that increasing the current intensity gradually resulted in no responses at sub-0.3 mA levels, but higher intensities (p < 0.001) induced sensory perception and pain responses. Study two replicated these findings and additionally induced motor responses along with the sensory and pain responses. Conclusion Despite the theoretical classification of tPCS as a subsensory level of stimulation, and the expectation that individuals receiving this type of current should not typically feel its application on the body, this high-frequency tPCS device generates different levels of stimulation due to the physiological phenomenon known as temporal summation. These novel levels of stimulation could be viewed as either potential “side-effects” of high frequency tPCS or as additional “therapeutic benefits”. This dual capacity may position the device as one that generates both neuromodulatory and neurostimulatory currents. Comprehensive comprehension of this is vital for the development of therapeutic protocols that incorporate high-frequency tPCS. Copyright: © 2023 Jaberzadeh, Zoghi. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Relation
- PLoS ONE Vol. 18, no. 12 December (2023), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2023 Jaberzadeh, Zoghi
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- MD Multidisciplinary
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- Reviewed
- Funder
- SJ received support from AscenZion Neuromodulation Co. Pte. Ltd, Singapore. However, the sponsor had no involvement in the development of the study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation, writing of the report, or the decision to submit the article for publication (URL of funder: https://ascenzion.com.sg/aboutus/).
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