Targeting the insula with transcranial direct current stimulation; a simulation study

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Esmaeilzadeh Kiabani, N

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Type of Document: Article
DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2023.111718
Publisher: Elsevier Ireland Ltd , 2023
Abstract:
Insula is considered an important region of the brain in the generation and maintenance of a wide range of psychiatric symptoms, possibly due to being key in fundamental functions such as interoception and cognition in general. Investigating the possibility of targeting this area using non-invasive brain stimulation techniques can open new possibilities to probe the normal and abnormal functioning of the brain and potentially new treatment protocols to alleviate symptoms of different psychiatric disorders. In the current study, COMETS2, a MATLAB based toolbox was used to simulate the magnitude of the current density and electric field in the brain caused by different transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) protocols to find an optimum montage to target the insula and its 6 subregions for three different current intensities, namely 2, 3, and 4 mA. Frontal and occipital regions were found to be optimal candidate regions. The results of the current study showed that it is viable to reach the insula and its individual subregions using tDCS. © 2023 Elsevier B.V
Keywords:
Insula ; Insular cortex ; Psychiatric disorders ; Simulation ; tDCS ; Transcranial direct current stimulation
Source: Psychiatry Research - Neuroimaging ; Volume 335 , 2023 ; 09254927 (ISSN)
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925492723001282