Online mental health training program for male-dominated organisations: a pre-post pilot study assessing feasibility, usability, and preliminary effectiveness.

Purpose: The emergence of digital health interventions for mental ill-health in the workplace is expansive. Digital interventions delivered in male-dominated settings are less so. This pilot study aimed to assess the usability, feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of an online intervention in a male-dominated organization.

Preliminary Evaluation of a Brief Web and Mobile Phone Intervention for Men With Depression: Men's Positive Coping Strategies and Associated Depression, Resilience, and Work and Social Functioning.

Background: Previous research has identified that men experiencing depression do not always access appropriate health services. Web-based interventions represent an alternative treatment option for men, are effective in reducing anxiety and depression, and have potential for wide dissemination. However, men do not access Web-based programs at the same rate as women.

Increase in PAS-induced neuroplasticity after a treatment course of transcranial direct current stimulation for depression.

Background: Several lines of evidence suggest that neuroplasticity is impaired in depression and improves with effective treatment. However until now, this evidence has largely involved measures such as learning and memory which can be influenced by subject effort and motivation. This pilot study aimed to objectively measure neuroplasticity in the motor cortex using paired associative stimulation (PAS), which induces short term neuroplastic changes.

Can transcranial direct current stimulation enhance outcomes from cognitive training? A randomized controlled trial in healthy participants.

Computer-administered cognitive training (CT) tasks are a common component of cognitive remediation treatments. There is growing evidence that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), when given during cognitive tasks, improves performance. This randomized, controlled trial explored the potential synergistic effects of CT combined with tDCS in healthy participants.

Neuroplasticity in depressed individuals compared with healthy controls.

Several lines of evidence suggest that neuroplasticity is impaired in depression. This study aimed to compare neuroplasticity in 23 subjects with DSM-IV major depressive episode and 23 age- and gender-matched healthy controls, using an objective test that is independent of subject effort and motivation. Neuroplasticity was assessed in the motor cortex using a brain stimulation paradigm known as paired associative stimulation (PAS), which induces transient changes in motor cortical function.

Paired associative stimulation increases motor cortex excitability more effectively than theta-burst stimulation.

Objective: To examine the effects of theta burst stimulation (TBS) and paired associative stimulation (PAS) on excitability in the human motor cortex.

Methods: Sixteen healthy young participants received intermittent TBS (iTBS) or PAS to the primary motor cortex on two testing occasions, at least a week apart. Ten of the participants also received iTBS or PAS after conditioning with continuous TBS on two other occasions.