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Combining non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation with neuroimaging and electrophysiology: Current approaches and future perspectives
- Source :
- NeuroImage
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- Non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation (NTBS) techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial current stimulation (TCS) are important tools in human systems and cognitive neuroscience because they are able to reveal the relevance of certain brain structures or neuronal activity patterns for a given brain function. It is nowadays feasible to combine NTBS, either consecutively or concurrently, with a variety of neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques. Here we discuss what kind of information can be gained from combined approaches, which often are technically demanding. We argue that the benefit from this combination is twofold. Firstly, neuroimaging and electrophysiology can inform subsequent NTBS, providing the required information to optimize where, when, and how to stimulate the brain. Information can be achieved both before and during the NTBS experiment, requiring consecutive and concurrent applications, respectively. Secondly, neuroimaging and electrophysiology can provide the readout for neural changes induced by NTBS. Again, using either concurrent or consecutive applications, both “online” NTBS effects immediately following the stimulation and “offline” NTBS effects outlasting plasticity-inducing NTBS protocols can be assessed. Finally, both strategies can be combined to close the loop between measuring and modulating brain activity by means of closed-loop brain state-dependent NTBS. In this paper, we will provide a conceptual framework, emphasizing principal strategies and highlighting promising future directions to exploit the benefits of combining NTBS with neuroimaging or electrophysiology.
- Subjects :
- Brain activity and meditation
Cognitive Neuroscience
medicine.medical_treatment
Models, Neurological
Neuroimaging
Cognitive neuroscience
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Brain mapping
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
medicine
Animals
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Closed-loop
Brain Mapping
Transcranial current stimulation (TCS)
Transcranial direct-current stimulation
Non-invasive transcranial brain stimulation (NTBS)
fungi
05 social sciences
Brain
Electroencephalography
Neurofeedback
Electrophysiology
Transcranial magnetic stimulation
Neurology
Brain stimulation
Psychology
Neuroscience
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Forecasting
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10538119
- Volume :
- 140
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- NeuroImage
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4a715501b7d00ad4d194f85c638b96b7