Brain StimulationPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2025.05.109
Alexander Bystritsky , Norman M. Spivak , Andrew J. Swenson , Andrew Bishay , Jonathan M. Haroon , Martin Monti , Susan Bookheimer , Kevin Caulfield , Taylor Kuhn , Bashar Badran , John Stern , Samantha Schafer , Mark George , Darin Dougherty , Noah Philip , Mark E. Schafer
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Development and implementation of a transcranial focused ultrasound device” [Brain Stimul 18 (1) (2025) 530]","authors":"Alexander Bystritsky , Norman M. Spivak , Andrew J. Swenson , Andrew Bishay , Jonathan M. Haroon , Martin Monti , Susan Bookheimer , Kevin Caulfield , Taylor Kuhn , Bashar Badran , John Stern , Samantha Schafer , Mark George , Darin Dougherty , Noah Philip , Mark E. Schafer","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.05.109","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.05.109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 4","pages":"Page 1242"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144580865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain StimulationPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2025.06.015
Alexander S. Atalay , Matteo Fecchio , Brian L. Edlow
{"title":"Visualizing effective connectivity in the human brain","authors":"Alexander S. Atalay , Matteo Fecchio , Brian L. Edlow","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.06.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.06.015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 4","pages":"Pages 1254-1256"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144473960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “The role of continuous theta burst stimulation in managing dystonia in a Wilson's disease patient: Case report” [Brain Stimul 18 (1) (2025)]","authors":"Ankita Saroj, Sandhya Verma, Mohita Joshi, Sujita Kumar Kar, Praveen Kumar Sharma","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.05.132","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.05.132","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 4","pages":"Page 1253"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144580949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain StimulationPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2025.05.129
Katarina Hofman, Jiazhi Chen, Muthuraman Muthuraman, Chi Wang Ip
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Biomarkers for deep brain stimulation in animal models of movement disorders” [Brain Stimul 18 (1) (2025) 273–274]","authors":"Katarina Hofman, Jiazhi Chen, Muthuraman Muthuraman, Chi Wang Ip","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.05.129","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.05.129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 4","pages":"Page 1247"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144581108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain StimulationPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2025.05.107
Jiahong Cui , Nianqiu Shen , Wenbo Yu , Lei Hu , Yuxuan Wang , Zhihan Liu
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Transcranial random noise stimulation of the bilateral parietal cortex enhances processing of visual cross-modal conflicts: A randomized controlled trial” [Brain Stimul 18 (1) (2025) 478]","authors":"Jiahong Cui , Nianqiu Shen , Wenbo Yu , Lei Hu , Yuxuan Wang , Zhihan Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.05.107","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.05.107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 4","pages":"Page 1243"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144580866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Impact of learning to control virtual avatars on self-body motor control: a TMS study” [Brain Stimul 18 (1) (2025) 469–470]","authors":"Hajime Hara , Mitsuaki Takemi , Kenjun Hayashida , Daichi Nozaki","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.05.127","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.05.127","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 4","pages":"Page 1246"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144581107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain StimulationPub Date : 2025-07-01DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2025.06.016
Konstantin Hrisimirov Kostov , Hrisimir Kostov , Pål Gunnar Larsson , Oliver Henning , Arild Egge , Morten Ingvar Lossius , Jukka Peltola
{"title":"Turning up the current – optimizing stimulation parameters with vagus nerve stimulation in a nationwide Norwegian cohort (The NOR-current study)","authors":"Konstantin Hrisimirov Kostov , Hrisimir Kostov , Pål Gunnar Larsson , Oliver Henning , Arild Egge , Morten Ingvar Lossius , Jukka Peltola","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.06.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.06.016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Despite widespread use of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), evidence regarding optimal stimulation titration and dosing remains limited. Significant inter-practice variability and deviation from guidelines, results in sub-optimal dosing.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>Identify optimal stimulation parameters and establish target dosing for VNS therapy in epilepsy.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We linked long-term outcomes with dosing parameters in 415 patients from a VNS registry (median follow-up = 79.0 months). A generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) assessed relationships between stimulation parameters (Output Current (OC), Frequency, Pulse Width (PW), Duty cycle [DC]) and very good clinical response (≥75 % seizure frequency reduction from baseline).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Output current was the strongest predictor of seizure reduction (p = 0.001). Increasing OC by 1 mA more than doubled the probability of ≥75 % seizure reduction, peaking at 2.70 mA. Greatest likelihood of ≥50 % seizure reduction was at 2.1 mA. Post-hoc analysis supported GLMM findings, showing significantly more patients (46.3 %) receiving >2.0 mA OC achieved ≥75 % seizure reduction compared with 30.7 % (p = 0.01) among patients using lower OC. Although changes in DC were not significantly associated with seizure reduction, post-hoc analysis suggested benefits from other duty cycles. Standard 250 μs PW and 20 Hz frequency were associated with best effect. Longer follow-up improved seizure control (p < 0.001); intellectual disability negatively impacted response (p = 0.005). Seizure-free patients had significantly lower total charge (122.4 vs. 250.1 mC, p = 0.014) than patients with persistent seizures.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Output current should be the primary focus when titrating VNS patients to optimal dose. We suggest a target range of 1.5–2.25 mA with 250 μs PW and 20 Hz frequency. Higher OC should be attempted if tolerated.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 4","pages":"Pages 1212-1219"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144526473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}