NIH’s SPARC program spent a decade building the foundations of bioelectronic medicine
A new review details how the NIH Common Fund's SPARC initiative invested hundreds of millions of dollars over ten years ...
Tag: Neuromodulation
QEEG-Guided Low-Intensity Magnetic Stimulation Shows Preliminary Brain and Cognitive Changes in One Athlete With Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury
A single-case study reports that individualized, QEEG-guided low-intensity transcranial magnetic stimulation was associated with altered brain wave patterns and improved ...
NIH’s SPARC Program Ends After a Decade of Mapping Nerves and Building Open Bioelectronic Tools
A new review details how the NIH SPARC initiative spent a decade building autonomic nerve maps, open-source neuromodulation devices, and ...
Ear Vagus Stimulation Tops Response Rankings While tDCS Leads Symptom Relief in Depression Review
A network meta-analysis of 33 randomised trials finds electrical stimulation outperforms sham for depression, with taVNS ranking highest for clinical ...
EEG Reveals Hidden Brain Network Signatures in Adolescents with Depressive Symptoms
A multiscale EEG study of 250 adolescents finds theta-band hyperconnectivity, reduced dynamic state flexibility, and focal right prefrontal topological vulnerability ...
Cervical spinal cord stimulation linked to stronger arm muscle activation after chronic stroke
A pilot feasibility study of four chronic stroke survivors reports that cervical epidural spinal cord stimulation, guided by individualized intraoperative ...
Nerve Stimulation Outperforms Single-Target Radiofrequency for Shingles Eye Pain
A 269-patient retrospective cohort study found short-term peripheral nerve stimulation gave more sustained relief than single-target pulsed radiofrequency for shingles-related ...
Conceptual framework links neural pathways to mammalian physiological regulation
A conceptual paper proposes that distinct neuromodulation pathways may affect overlapping functions through a testable framework for mammalian physiological organization ...
Research report: Local circuitry mechanisms underlying motor cortex stimulation for chronic pain treatment
A BMC Medicine review proposes that motor cortex stimulation can relieve specific chronic pain conditions through local excitation, inhibition, and ...
Research report: Promotion and economic considerations of domestic Vagus nerve stimulation within the Chinese three-tier epilepsy center system
A Chinese narrative synthesis found encouraging seizure and comorbidity outcomes with domestic VNS in adults and children, but uncontrolled studies, ...
Trial will test timing of acupuncture and vagus nerve stimulation after stroke
A planned three-arm trial will compare simultaneous with two sequential schedules of scalp acupuncture and transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation ...
Prefrontal stimulation reduces smartphone use and reshapes brain timing
A randomized sham-controlled trial links repeated left-prefrontal tDCS with reduced smartphone use, lower craving and selective changes in resting-state EEG ...
Mechanistic Role of Layer 5-to-2/3 Recurrent Feedback in TMS-Evoked Motor Potentials
A personalized neural field model identifies recurrent inhibitory feedback as a major regulator of TMS-evoked motor potentials and individual theta-burst ...
Why the Angle of a Brain-Stimulation Coil Could Make or Break Pain Relief
A comprehensive scoping review finds that the optimal angle for TMS coils follows individual cortical geometry rather than a universal ...
Two Decades of Data Show Deep Brain Stimulation Can Deliver Lasting Relief for Severe OCD
A two-decade cohort study finds that deep brain stimulation of the nucleus accumbens and anterior internal capsule produced sustained symptom ...
Electrical Stimulation of the Spine Can Restore Movement After Paralysis — But the Recipe Is Still Being Written
A new narrative review maps how electrode placement, frequency, intensity, pulse width, and stimulation mode determine what epidural spinal cord ...
Zapping the Brain’s Consciousness Networks: What 22 Controlled Trials Reveal
A scoping review of 22 controlled trials finds that network-targeted neurostimulation can improve functional connectivity in disorders of consciousness, but ...
One-Sided Brain Stimulation Calms Drug-Resistant Epilepsy in Landmark Case
A Japanese case report describes a woman with drug-resistant epilepsy whose seizures fell by about 60 percent after deep brain ...
Deep brain stimulation coil boosts walking math power in healthy adults
A randomized crossover trial finds that deep transcranial magnetic stimulation with theta burst protocols significantly increases the number of mental ...
EEG-Guided Brain Stimulation Rebuilds Movement in Severe Functional Movement Disorder Case
A single-patient case study reports EEG-guided rTMS over the supplementary motor area, followed by staged rehabilitation, improved severe functional movement ...
