Health Aspirations for Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)

IF 2.6 4区 哲学 Q1 ETHICS
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Abstract

Advances in neuroscience have enabled the transition of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) from research and clinical settings to public use. For this primarily home-based context, tDCS has been popularized as a do-it-yourself (DIY) approach to improved cognition and wellness. The line between wellness and health is blurry, however, and little is known about how engagement with therapeutic tDCS impacts users’ interactions with other interventions such as clinical consultations, pharmacotherapy, complementary medicine, and even other neurotechnology. To close this gap, we collected data from the online content aggregator Reddit and analyzed posts pertaining to tDCS. Findings indicate that most users turn to Reddit to request information about tDCS as an adjunct, but not as a bypass, to ongoing or prior approaches. Posts suggest that mainstream medical care is viewed as necessary but not sufficient to address conditions such as depression and anxiety. Users discuss a mix of benefits and harms. This discourse provides valuable insights into the health practices, concerns and priorities of users, and new knowledge for informing applications of neurotechnology both inside and outside the therapeutic setting.

经颅直流电刺激(tDCS)的健康愿望
摘要 神经科学的进步使得经颅直流电刺激(tDCS)从研究和临床环境过渡到公众使用。在这种主要以家庭为基础的环境中,tDCS 已被普及为一种自己动手(DIY)改善认知和健康的方法。然而,健康与保健之间的界限并不清晰,人们对参与治疗性 tDCS 如何影响用户与其他干预措施(如临床咨询、药物治疗、辅助医疗,甚至其他神经技术)之间的互动知之甚少。为了填补这一空白,我们从在线内容聚合网站 Reddit 收集了数据,并分析了与 tDCS 相关的帖子。研究结果表明,大多数用户都会在 Reddit 上询问有关 tDCS 的信息,将其作为一种辅助手段,而不是当前或之前治疗方法的旁路。帖子表明,主流医疗被认为是必要的,但不足以解决抑郁和焦虑等问题。用户讨论了各种益处和害处。这些讨论为了解用户的健康实践、关注点和优先事项提供了宝贵的见解,也为在治疗环境内外应用神经技术提供了新的知识。
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Neuroethics
Neuroethics MEDICAL ETHICS-
CiteScore
5.50
自引率
7.10%
发文量
31
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Neuroethics is an international, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to academic articles on the ethical, legal, political, social and philosophical questions provoked by research in the contemporary sciences of the mind and brain; especially, but not only, neuroscience, psychiatry and psychology. The journal publishes articles on questions raised by the sciences of the brain and mind, and on the ways in which the sciences of the brain and mind illuminate longstanding debates in ethics and philosophy.
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