Brain StimulationPub Date : 2025-01-28DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.023
Maya Hazimeh , Harold A. Sackeim , Ziad Nahas
{"title":"The effects of pulse amplitude in electroconvulsive therapy on seizure threshold, seizure duration, and time to reorientation","authors":"Maya Hazimeh , Harold A. Sackeim , Ziad Nahas","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 2","pages":"Pages 116-118"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143063804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain StimulationPub Date : 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.020
Lindsay D. Oliver , Jerrold Jeyachandra , Erin W. Dickie , Colin Hawco , Salim Mansour , Stephanie M. Hare , Robert W. Buchanan , Anil K. Malhotra , Daniel M. Blumberger , Zhi-De Deng , Aristotle N. Voineskos
{"title":"Bayesian Optimization Of NeuroStimulation (BOONStim)","authors":"Lindsay D. Oliver , Jerrold Jeyachandra , Erin W. Dickie , Colin Hawco , Salim Mansour , Stephanie M. Hare , Robert W. Buchanan , Anil K. Malhotra , Daniel M. Blumberger , Zhi-De Deng , Aristotle N. Voineskos","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 2","pages":"Pages 112-115"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143063792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain StimulationPub Date : 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.021
Zifan You , Zhangyin He , Luyao Zou , Shanshan Chen , Jinsong Tang
{"title":"High intensity transcranial altering current stimulation for cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia: A pilot trial","authors":"Zifan You , Zhangyin He , Luyao Zou , Shanshan Chen , Jinsong Tang","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 2","pages":"Pages 119-121"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143063798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain StimulationPub Date : 2025-01-26DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.017
JianKang Wu , He Wang , Jingna Jin , Xin Wang , Ying Li , Zhipeng Liu , Tao Yin
{"title":"Influence of coil orientation on the TMS-induced electric field within the clinically recommended brain region for major depressive disorder","authors":"JianKang Wu , He Wang , Jingna Jin , Xin Wang , Ying Li , Zhipeng Liu , Tao Yin","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 2","pages":"Pages 109-111"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143045570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain StimulationPub Date : 2025-01-24DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.014
Oluwatofunmi A. Abiola , Collin M. Lehmann , Khaled Moussawi , Hawre Jalal
{"title":"Cost-effectiveness analysis of deep brain stimulation for the treatment of alcohol use disorder and alcoholic liver disease","authors":"Oluwatofunmi A. Abiola , Collin M. Lehmann , Khaled Moussawi , Hawre Jalal","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a major public health concern and cause of mortality and morbidity. Alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) is a debilitating complication of AUD, mitigated by abstinence from alcohol use. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is emerging as a potential treatment for AUD. However, its cost-effectiveness compared to the standard medical treatment is unclear.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To estimate the cost-effectiveness of DBS compared to medical management for patients with AUD and ALD.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We utilized a decision analytic model based on published literature to conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of costs and health outcomes for DBS and medical management in patients with AUD and ALD. We also carried out a threshold analysis to determine the probability of success necessary for DBS to be cost-effective. Costs were measured in 2024 US dollars and effectiveness in quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). We used a time horizon of 1–2 years and adopted a societal perspective.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Our results show that for AUD patients in general, DBS is not cost-effective at any DBS success rate. However, for advanced ALD patients, defined as fibrosis stage 3 or beyond DBS becomes cost-effective. For these patients, DBS is cost-effective over a two-year period at a $100,000 willingness-to-pay threshold at DBS success rates greater than 53 %. For advanced decompensated ALD patients, DBS is cost-effective over a one-year period at DBS success rate greater than 35 %.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Should it prove efficacious, DBS may be cost-effective for patients with AUD and ALD. Thus, future randomized controlled trials to evaluate its efficacy are warranted.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 2","pages":"Pages 122-131"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143045569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain StimulationPub Date : 2025-01-21DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.012
Andrea Antal , Alexander T. Sack , Til Ole Bergmann , Jovana Bjekic , Saša R. Filipovic , Ana Ganho-Ávila , Vera Moliadze , Michael A. Nitsche , Simone Rossi , Teresa Schuhmann , Hartwig Siebner , Walter Paulus , Chris Baeken
{"title":"Note of concern regarding the sources of scientific evidence used to justify the Reclassification of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS) Devices without an intended medical purpose into Class III","authors":"Andrea Antal , Alexander T. Sack , Til Ole Bergmann , Jovana Bjekic , Saša R. Filipovic , Ana Ganho-Ávila , Vera Moliadze , Michael A. Nitsche , Simone Rossi , Teresa Schuhmann , Hartwig Siebner , Walter Paulus , Chris Baeken","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2025.01.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 2","pages":"Pages 103-108"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143027965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain StimulationPub Date : 2025-01-10DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2024.12.1477
Taylor P. Kuhn , Aprinda Indahlastari , Fidel Vila-Rodriguez , Gregory A. Fonzo
{"title":"The ENIGMA-Neuromodulation working group – A mission statement","authors":"Taylor P. Kuhn , Aprinda Indahlastari , Fidel Vila-Rodriguez , Gregory A. Fonzo","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2024.12.1477","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2024.12.1477","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 2","pages":"Pages 142-144"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142969713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain StimulationPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2024.12.1189
Roland Beisteiner, Eva Matt
{"title":"Ultrasound neuromodulation – How deep can we stimulate?","authors":"Roland Beisteiner, Eva Matt","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2024.12.1189","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2024.12.1189","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 1","pages":"Pages 15-18"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142823675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain StimulationPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2024.12.1476
Rebecca Burke , Alexander Maÿe , Jonas Misselhorn , Marina Fiene , Felix J. Engelhardt , Till R. Schneider , Andreas K. Engel
{"title":"The role of delta phase for temporal predictions investigated with bilateral parietal tACS","authors":"Rebecca Burke , Alexander Maÿe , Jonas Misselhorn , Marina Fiene , Felix J. Engelhardt , Till R. Schneider , Andreas K. Engel","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2024.12.1476","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2024.12.1476","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Previous research has shown that temporal prediction processes are associated with phase resets of low-frequency delta oscillations in a network of parietal, sensory and frontal areas during non-rhythmic sensory stimulation. Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) modulates perceptually relevant brain oscillations in a frequency and phase-specific manner, allowing the assessment of their functional qualities in certain cognitive functions like temporal prediction.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>We addressed the relation between oscillatory activity and temporal prediction by using tACS to manipulate brain activity in a sinusoidal manner. This enables the investigation of the relevance of low-frequency oscillations’ phase for temporal prediction.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Delta tACS was applied over the left and right parietal cortex in two separate unimodal and crossmodal temporal prediction experiments. Participants judged either the visual or the tactile reappearance of a uniformly moving visual stimulus, which shortly disappeared behind an occluder. tACS was applied with six different phase shifts relative to sensory stimulation in both experiments. Additionally, a computational model was developed and analysed to elucidate oscillation-based functional principles for the generation of temporal predictions.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Only in the unimodal experiment, the application of delta tACS resulted in a phase-dependent modulation of temporal prediction performance. By considering the effect of sustained tACS in the computational model, we demonstrate that the entrained dynamics can phase-specifically modulate temporal prediction accuracy.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Our results suggest that delta oscillatory phase contributes to unimodal temporal prediction. Crossmodal prediction may involve a broader brain network or cross-frequency interactions, extending beyond parietal delta phase and the scope of our current stimulation design.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 1","pages":"Pages 103-113"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142892087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brain StimulationPub Date : 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2024.12.1188
Ilkka Laakso , Janita Nissi, Otto Kangasmaa
{"title":"Vestibular involvement in transcranial electrical stimulation: Body sway as a marker of unintended stimulation","authors":"Ilkka Laakso , Janita Nissi, Otto Kangasmaa","doi":"10.1016/j.brs.2024.12.1188","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.brs.2024.12.1188","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9206,"journal":{"name":"Brain Stimulation","volume":"18 1","pages":"Pages 34-36"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142885158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}