tDCS at home with Starstim
One of the emerging trends in the field of tDCS for medical applications is telemedicine or home use. The main reasons for the field’s growth are that we know this to be a safe technique, with only minor side effects…
Author: Giulio Ruffini
President at Neuroelectrics
Practical BCI Application: the feasibility of asynchronous EEG/EOG BCIs for grasping
Have you ever imagined how many sensors, signal processing and subtasks it takes for the body to process and execute a success command? The recent paper by Crea et al (Scientific Reports 2018) represents an exciting step towards the development…
Brain-to-brain communication
Some would say that my mom is a bit eccentric … When we were little, she would have us play a fun game … well, I remember this happening at least once probably around 1975. The game was … telepathy….
EEG and tCS: exploiting the loop
Some years ago I was deeply intrigued by the notion of “locking” into natural brain rhythms using tACS or more exotic tCS flavors. The basic notion stems from the idea of resonance the phenomenon in which a forced dynamical system is able to…
Recent Highlights in tDCS Clinical Research: Depression
In a recent posts I provided an overview of tCS in Stroke and Pain. Here I do the same but for Depression (only tDCS papers appear, though). Please let me know if you think I am missing some important one!…
tDCS clinical research – recent highlights: Pain
Is transcranial current stimulation (tCS, including direct current, tDCS, alternating current, tACS, or random noise stimulation tRNS) effective? Now that is a good and difficult question! Let me try to review recent developments. In a recent post I provided an…
Recent Highlights in tCS Clinical Research: Stroke
Is transcranial current stimulation (tCS, including direct current, tDCS, alternating current, tACS, or random noise stimulation tRNS) effective? Now that is a good and difficult question! Let me try to review recent developments. There continues to be a high intensity…
tCS and EEG: an electrical golden braid?
EEG – electroencephalography – provides a tool to study brain activity. Neurons create electrical chatter while they go about their work, and this “noise” contains valuable information, providing a unique window to peer into brain function. Of course, we are…
tDCS and Stroke: What We Know So Far (Jan 2013)
In this blog post I review – briefly and by no means exhaustively – some of the literature on the use of tDCS in stroke. This is of special interest to me these days, as I am involved in a…
Is tDCS Safe?
What do we know about the safety of tDCS and its variants? Quite a bit, as it turns out: in short, application of tDCS with the protocols used to date appears to be safe [Poreisz2007a, Brunoni2011a]. Already in 2008, Nitsche…