Stroke is a leading cause of life-long disability. The improvement of acute treatment has increased stroke survival, leaving more people in rehabilitative care than ever. Here, the recovery of function typically reaches a plateau after initial progress. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been suggested to facilitate recovery beyond this plateau, even in the chronic stage. However, no clear pattern of tDCS-induced effects could be established in patients yet, likely due to inconsistent experimental designs in previous studies. In this talk I will present data from two studies I performed during my PhD here at the MPI CBS. The first (pilot) study covers differential effects of tDCS on proprioception in healthy ageing and introduces and applies an individualised current modelling approach to explain differences between age groups. In the second study, we have investigated a large array of sensorimotor functions in chronic stroke patients and the impact of two different tDCS protocols on the kinematics of those functions. [mehr]