title: The stimulated social brain: effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on social cognition.
abstract: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is an increasingly popular noninvasive neuromodulatory tool in the fields of cognitive and clinical neuroscience and psychiatry. It is an inexpensive, painless, and safe brain-stimulation technique that has proven to be effective in modulating cognitive and sensory-perceptual functioning in healthy individuals and clinical populations. Importantly, recent findings have shown that tDCS may also be an effective and promising tool for probing the neural mechanisms of social cognition. In this review, we present the state-of-the-art of the field of tDCS research in social cognition. By doing so, we aim to gather knowledge of the potential of tDCS to modulate social functioning and social decision making in healthy humans, and to inspire future research investigations.
authors.affiliation: Cognitive Psychology Unit & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Roberta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sellaro
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany.|Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Resources, Dortmund, Germany.|Department of Neurology, University Medical Hospital Bergmannsheil, Bochum, Germany.
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Nitsche
authors.affiliation: Cognitive Psychology Unit & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Lorenza S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Colzato
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D012919:Social Behavior; D012938:Social Perception; D066107:Social Skills; D065908:Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: brain stimulation; emotion regulation; morality; self-other representations; social cognition; transcranial direct current stimulation