Prefrontal brain stimulation during food-related inhibition training: effects on food craving, food consumption and inhibitory control

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Modulation of dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) activity using non-invasive brain stimulation has been shown to reduce food craving as well as food consumption. Using a preregistered design, we examined whether bilateral transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the DLPFC could reduce food craving and consumption in healthy participants when administered alongside the cognitive target of inhibitory control training. Participants ( N = 172) received either active or sham tDCS (2 mA; anode F4, cathode F3) while completing a food-related Go/No-Go task. State food craving, ad-lib food consumption and response inhibition were evaluated. Compared with sham stimulation, we found no evidence for an effect of active tDCS on any of these outcome measures in a predominantly female sample. Our findings raise doubts about the effectiveness of single-session tDCS on food craving and consumption. Consideration of individual differences, improvements in tDCS protocols and multi-session testing are discussed.

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Journal ID (nlm-ta): R Soc Open Sci

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): R Soc Open Sci

Journal ID (publisher-id): RSOS

Journal ID (hwp): royopensci

Title: Royal Society Open Science

Publisher: The Royal Society Publishing

ISSN (Electronic): 2054-5703

Publication date Collection: January 2019

Publication date (Electronic): 9 January 2019

Publication date PMC-release: 9 January 2019

Volume: 6

Issue: 1

Electronic Location Identifier: 181186

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[1 ]Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University , Cardiff CF24 4HQ, UK

[2 ]School of Psychology, University of Exeter , Washington Singer Building, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK

[3 ]Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University , Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

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Author for correspondence: Jemma Sedgmond e-mail: sedgmondj@ 123456cardiff.ac.uk

Author for correspondence: Christopher D. Chambers e-mail: chambersc1@ 123456cardiff.ac.uk

Author for correspondence: Rachel C. Adams e-mail: adamsrc1@ 123456cardiff.ac.uk

Electronic supplementary material is available online at https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4330979.

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Jemma Sedgmond http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4678-3739

Christopher D. Chambers http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6058-4114

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Publisher ID: rsos181186

DOI: 10.1098/rsos.181186

PMC ID: 6366210

PubMed ID: 30800367

SO-VID: aa29d963-d766-43f2-a177-acce119bd08b

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Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Date received : 31 July 2018

Date accepted : 30 November 2018

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Funded by: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000268;

Award ID: BB/K008277/1

Funded by: Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund;

Funded by: European research council;

Award ID: Consolidator 647893

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Keywords: transcranial direct current stimulation,brain stimulation,food intake,food craving,inhibitory control

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Prefrontal brain stimulation during food-related inhibition training: effects on food craving, food consumption and inhibitory control

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Self-control in decision-making involves modulation of the vmPFC valuation system.

Anxiety-related attentional biases and their regulation by attentional control.

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