Scoping Review Maps How Depression Treatments Fare in Autistic People
A scoping review of studies published from 1995 to 2025 finds that autism-adapted psychosocial therapies show the most consistent signals ...
Tag: Neuromodulation
Bioelectronic Medicine Summit Charts Neurotechnologies for Patients and Communities
The Sixth Bioelectronic Medicine Summit in New York highlighted bioresorbable implants, gamma-frequency therapy for Alzheimer's disease, vagus nerve advances, and ...
Vagus Nerve Stimulation Boosts Memory in Female Rats Only During Certain Estrous Phases
A single session of vagus nerve stimulation improved memory and hippocampal plasticity in female rats, but only when tested during ...
Ear Nerve Stimulation Eases Negative Feelings in Women with Borderline Personality Disorder
In a randomized sham-controlled trial, a single session of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation was associated with lower self-reported negative ...
Surgery Plus Rehabilitation Reshapes Cerebral Palsy Care, Review Finds
A narrative review argues that surgery and rehabilitation in cerebral palsy work best when tightly coordinated, while warning that direct ...
Emerging Neuroscientists Map Body, Brain and Behaviour Across the Lifespan
A new Frontiers Research Topic gathers studies led by early-career researchers in psychophysiology and cognitive neuroscience, spanning bodily self-representation, neural ...
Optogenetics offers a precise window into neural circuits behind neurodegenerative disease
A new review in Frontiers in Medical Technology surveys how optogenetics has advanced the study of neural circuits in neurodegenerative ...
Ear-worn nerve stimulator cuts heavy menstrual bleeding in small pilot trial
An open-label pilot trial of 11 women found that a wearable neurostimulation device with a new mastoid electrode was associated ...
Thalamic Deep-Brain Recordings Offer Rare Window Into Hidden Consciousness
A narrative review synthesizes intracranial thalamic local field potential findings in prolonged disorders of consciousness, mapping oscillatory, connectivity, aperiodic and ...
Research report: Triple network effective connectivity imbalance across the Alzheimer’s disease spectrum and its modulation by intermittent theta burst stimulation
A two-cohort neuroimaging study finds default mode network-centered connectivity imbalance across the Alzheimer's disease spectrum and preliminary evidence that intermittent ...
Ear nerve stimulation proves comfortable across settings in two crossover trials
Two randomized crossover trials in healthy adults found that transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation was well tolerated across different duty ...
Decade-long follow-up finds vagus nerve stimulation feasible and safe in Crohn’s disease
A ten-year observational follow-up of nine implanted Crohn's disease patients reports sustained remission in three people on vagus nerve stimulation ...
Quantitative EEG Shows Promise for Tracking Epilepsy Treatment, Review Finds
A critical narrative review of over 160 studies finds quantitative EEG useful for longitudinal epilepsy treatment monitoring but not yet ...
Magnetic seizure therapy eases depression symptoms but EEG theta signals stay unproven
An exploratory single-arm study found that magnetic seizure therapy produced large short-term symptom reductions in treatment-resistant depression, but nominal EEG ...
Implantable chip reads cross-brain synchrony to flag mental states in real time
EPFL researchers have built a low-power implantable chip, LogSync, that extracts synchrony biomarkers across brain regions and decodes cognitive and ...
Radiosurgery Eased Seizures in Drug-Resistant Epilepsy, but No Patient Became Seizure-Free
A seven-patient pilot study found that LINAC-based radiosurgery targeting the hippocampal head and anterior body cut median seizure frequency by ...
Cenobamate Reshapes the Treatment Path for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy
A new commentary argues that the antiseizure medication cenobamate deserves a defined role before, between, and after surgery and neuromodulation ...
Vagus Nerve Stimulation Cuts Seizures and Lifts Quality of Life in Chinese Epilepsy Study
A nationwide Chinese study of 124 patients found that vagus nerve stimulation produced rising seizure reduction and quality-of-life benefits over ...
Cutting a Neck Nerve Rewires Gene Networks to Ease Rat Lung Hypertension
In a rat model of pulmonary arterial hypertension, surgically cutting the cervical sympathetic trunk lowered lung pressures and reshaped transcription ...
New Questionnaire Brings Structure to Vagus Nerve Stimulation Safety Reporting
Researchers developed and pilot-tested a semi-structured questionnaire to standardize how side effects of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation are reported.
