The Pain Relief for OsteoArthritis through Combined Treatment (PROACT) was a proof-of-principle mechanistic randomized controlled trial to examine the effects of Breathing and Attention Training (BAT), and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on pain modulatory balance, pain-related brain function, and clinical pain in middle-aged to older adults with knee osteoarthritis (OA)....
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) employs the elective induction of generalizes seizures as a potent treatment for severe psychiatric illness. As such, ECT provides an opportunity to rigorously study the recovery of consciousness, reconstitution of cognition, and electroencephalographic (EEG) activity following seizures. Fifteen patients with major depressive disorder refractory to pharmacologic...