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Brain Stimulation & Mental Health

In this Dana Foundation Brain Lecture, hosted by Secret Science Club, psychiatrist and bioengineer Alik Widge describes how research and cutting-edge therapies involving brain stimulation will change our futures.

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Enhancing the Signal: Can Electrostimulation Help with Cognitive Decline?

Very early tests of surface-level stimulation suggest it may work, at least in the short term.
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Rewiring the Brain: Zapping with Precision

Devices that stimulate the nervous system through electric current are now being used to treat depression, movement disorders, and chronic pain. Our author, a Stanford professor and senior scientific research director for Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center in Palo Alto, CA, provides insight on the various strategies now available.
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Outside-In Brain Stimulation Shows Promise in the Lab

While deep brain stimulation involves surgery, techniques like transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial direct current stimulation are applied from the scalp. Evidence is growing that this outside-in approach also could help improve mental states in people with  schizophrenia who have not found help in other ways.
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The Illusion of the Perfect Brain Enhancer

Many questions loom over transcranial direct current stimulation, a non-invasive form of neurostimulation in which constant, low current is delivered directly to areas of the brain using small electrodes.
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Brain Stimulation + Imaging Pack Dual Punch to Treat, Unravel Depression Circuitry

Q&A with Amit Etkin, M.D., Ph.D.

Dana Grantee Amit Etkin's lab is investigating the use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in combination with whole-brain EEG and functional MRI (fMRI) to treat depression and to help unravel its underlying brain circuitry.

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