Combined home-delivered transcranial direct current stimulation and cognitive training in older adults with mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease: a randomized, single-blind, sham-controlled trial.

BMC Geriatr · 2026 · PMC13196231 · PMID 41965602

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a trend toward significancep = .066so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

At post-intervention, a trend toward significance was detected ( p = .066), though no pairwise comparisons reached significance.

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported

The 3 groups receiving an active intervention component (tDCS with CT, tDCS without CT, and sham tDCS with CT) showed significant improvements between baseline and post-intervention, and between baseline and follow-up ( p < .05), except for the baseline-follow-up comparison in the tDCS without CT group, which did not reach statistical significance.

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