A Feasibility Study of Mindfulness Training Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Adults With Overweight and Obesity

Exclusion Criteria

• •Insufficient written and spoken English
• •All known contraindications to tDCS (Brunoni et al., 2012)
• •Pregnancy; history of neurological disease and/or seizure
• •Having any metallic implants in the head or body
• •History of head or eye injury
• •Significant health problems in the previous six months
• •A lifetime diagnosis of substance dependence, psychosis, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder; any other primary psychiatric disorder requiring treatment in its own right
• •Taking psychotropic medication
• •Taking medication for weight loss Regular, current or past, mindfulness meditation or yoga practice (defined as \> 20 minutes, twice or more per week during the past 2 months)
• •Consuming more than 14 units of alcohol per week who are unwilling to reduce their alcohol intake for the duration of the treatment
• •Current illicit drug use
• •Learning difficulties that would preclude safe tDCS self-administration and/or completion of questionnaire measures and neurocognitive tasks (e.g.; working memory and inhibitory control)
• •Current atypical anorexia nervosa or purging once a week or more.