Brain Stimulation
May 21, 2026
Lucas Dwiel, Mackenzi L. Prina, Elise Bragg et al.
A leading theory for how psychedelics are able to produce robust clinical improvement and preclinical behavioral changes is that psychedelics act through neuroplastic mechanisms to induce lasting structural and functional alterations in neural circuits. However, psychedelics produce these effects across wide swaths of the brain. Based on our prior work, we hypothesized that engaging a specific...
Brain Stimulation
April 1, 2024
Yang Bai, Li Yang, Xiangqiang Meng et al.
BACKGROUND The complexity of the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying human consciousness is widely acknowledged, with information processing and flow originating in cortex conceived as a core mechanism of consciousness emergence. Combination of transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography (TMS-EEG) is considered as a promising technique to understand the effective...
Brain Stimulation
2024
Charles R Conway, Scott T Aaronson, Harold A Sackeim et al.
16 citations
RECOVER is a randomized sham-controlled trial of vagus nerve stimulation and the largest such trial conducted with a psychiatric neuromodulation intervention. To describe pre-implantation baseline clinical characteristics and treatment history of patients with unipolar, major depressive disorder (MDD), overall and as a function of exposure to interventional psychiatric treatments (INTs),...
Brain Stimulation
November 18, 2023
Anna Duong, Julian Quabs, Aaron Kucyi et al.
Functions of the human insula have been explored extensively with neuroimaging methods and intracranial electrical stimulation studies that have highlighted a functional segregation across its subregions. A recently developed cytoarchitectonic map of the human insula has also segregated this brain region into various areas. Our knowledge of the functional organization of this brain region at...
Brain Stimulation
October 5, 2021
Gonçalo Cotovio, Albino J Oliveira-Maia, Carter Paul et al.
3 citations
Funding Information: GC was funded by Funda??o para a Ci?ncia e Tecnologia (FCT; Portugal) through a PhD Scholarship (SFRH/BD/130210/2017). AJO-M was funded by FCT (Portugal) through a Junior Research and Career Development Award from the Harvard Medical School ? Portugal Program (HMSP-ICJ/0020/2011). GC and AJO-M were supported by grant PTDC/MED-NEU/31331/2017, and AJO-M by grant...
Brain Stimulation
April 28, 2020
Kristian H. R. Jensen, Sofie Trolle Pedersen, Mette Vinther Hansen et al.
2 citations
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is often the last resort in medically treatment-resistant patients. The mechanisms of its efficacy are still somewhat poorly understood. However, it is clearly a highly effective treatment for severe and psychotic depression, as well as other severe neuropsychiatric conditions [[1]Weiner R.D. Reti I.M. Key updates in the clinical application of electroconvulsive...
Brain Stimulation
November 1, 2018
Olivier Bodart, Matteo Fecchio, Marcello Massimini et al.
Meditation can be conceptualized as a family of complex emotional and attentional regulatory training regimes developed for various ends, including the cultivation of well-being and emotional balance. Previous studies have demonstrated that meditation may have positive effects on self-awareness, emotion regulation, attention processes, and also structural neuroplasticity [1]. However, the...