Background: Disorders of consciousness (DOC) are a spectrum of pathologies affecting one's ability to interact with the external world. At present, High-Definition Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (HD-tDCS) is used in many patients with DOC as a non-invasive treatment, but electrophysiological research on the effect of HD-tDCS on patients with DOC is limited.
Objectives: To explore how HD-tDCS affects the cerebral cortex and examine the possible electrophysiological mechanisms underlying the effects of HD-tDCS on the cerebral cortex.
Methods: A total of 19 DOC patients were assigned to HD-tDCS stimulation. Each of them underwent 10 anodal HD-tDCS sessions of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) over 5 consecutive days. Coma Recovery Scale-Revision (CRS-R) scores were recorded to evaluate the consciousness level before and after HD-tDCS, while resting-state electroencephalography (EEG) recordings were obtained immediately before and after single and multiple HD-tDCS stimuli. Depending on whether the CRS-R score increased after stimulation, we classified the subjects into responsive (RE) and non-responsive (N-RE) groups and compared the differences in power spectral density (PSD) between the groups in different frequency bands and brain regions, and also examined the relationship between PSD values and CRS-R scores.
Results: For the RE group, the PSD value of the parieto-occipital region increased significantly in the 6-8 Hz frequency band after multiple stimulations by HD-tDCS. After a single stimulation, an increase in PSD was observed at 10-13 and 13-30 Hz. In addition, for all subjects, a positive correlation was observed between the change in PSD value in the parieto-occipital region at 10-13 and 6-8 Hz frequency band and the change in CRS-R score after a single stimulation.
Conclusion: Repeated anodal HD-tDCS of the left DLPFC can improve clinical outcomes in patients with DOC, and HD-tDCS-related increased levels of consciousness were associated with increased parieto-occipital PSD.
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