It occurs to me that the bulk of the materiel I posted in my reply to Vrae in the memory loss and confusion in crps thread belongs here, so I'm cutting it out of that post and am instead putting in a link top this one.

Picking up with the feasibility and relative lack of financial burden in using anodal tDCS applied to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex as a treatment for CRPS induced cognitive impairment:

. . . You could easily get set up with everything you need by way of equipment for just under $400 and with a pain doc/psychiatrist prescribing a brief starting course of Seromycin, along with maybe a weekly booster thereafter (and perhaps one or two other psycho-pharmacologic meds for good measure) there's an excellent chance of controlling at least the cognitive side-effects of your CRPS.

But before I launch too far into the specifics of the medical literature in hopes of encouraging your further exploration of the subject, here's some information of a more general nature that I didn't share above.

First of all, you should be aware that the most important site in the country (world?) for tDCS research is that of the Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, MA. And the names of two of its principals, who are among the most respected neuroscientists in the country/world, keep popping up a lot in the literature: Alvaro Pascual-Leone and Felipe Fregni. And there's an incredible amount of valuable information on that site. And then, for something completely different, you may want to check out a quick over-view on the impact on a reporter’s immediate sense of a shift in her conscious awareness - specifically dramatically improved concentration and the cessation of internal chatter - Better Living Through Electrochemistry, Sally Adee, Feb. 9, 2012, The Last Word On Nothing.

That out of the way, and to get on with it, from just the freely available "open access" but peer reviewed literature, and by way of example, I offer the following:

Enhancement of planning ability by transcranial direct current stimulation, Dockery CA, Hueckel-Weng R, Birbaumer N, Plewnia C, J Neurosci. 2009 Jun 3;29(22):7271-7;

Transcranial direct current stimulation augments perceptual sensitivity and 24-hour retention in a complex threat detection task, Falcone B, Coffman BA, Clark VP, Parasuraman R, PLoS One 2012; 7(4):e34993 Epub 2012 Apr 12;

Task-specific effects of tDCS-induced cortical excitability changes on cognitive and motor sequence set shifting performance, Leite J, Carvalho S, Fregni F, Gonçalves ÓF, PLoS One 2011;6(9):e24140 Epub 2011 Sep 1;

Facilitate insight by non-invasive brain stimulation - A commentary on Enhancement of planning ability by transcranial direct current stimulation, Chi RP, Snyder AW, PLoS One 2011 Feb 2;6(2):e16655;

Manipulating executive function with transcranial direct current stimulation - A commentary on Enhancement of planning ability by transcranial direct current stimulation, Smith DV, Clithero JA, Front Integr Neurosci. 2009 Oct 8;3:26;

Improved proper name recall in aging after electrical stimulation of the anterior temporal lobes, Ross LA, McCoy D, Coslett HB, Olson IR, Wolk DA, Front Aging Neurosci. 2011;3:16. Epub 2011 Oct 12;

Polarity-dependent transcranial direct current stimulation effects on central auditory processing, Ladeira A, Fregni F, Campanhã C, Valasek CA, De Ridder D, Brunoni AR, Boggio PS, PLoS One. 2011;6(9):e25399. Epub 2011 Sep 23.; and

Transcranial direct current stimulation of the prefrontal cortex modulates working memory performance: combined behavioural and electrophysiological evidence, Zaehle T, Sandmann P, Thorne JD, Jäncke L, Herrmann CS, BMC Neurosci. 2011 Jan 6;12:2.

Finally, here's one on the concurrent use of Seromycin (cycloserine):

Consolidation of human motor cortical neuroplasticity by D-cycloserine, Nitsche MA, Jaussi W, Liebetanz D, Lang N, Tergau F, Paulus W, Neuropsychopharmacology. 2004 Aug; 29(8):1573-8.

I hope these materials will be of greater value in a new home: to the extent I'm not repeating myself. (And in that case, my apologies.)

Mike