Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders in the context of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic by R. Kaladytė Lokominienė

“…., for adjusting or checking deep brain stimulation programming, battery failure, levodopa duodenal pump treatments, botulinum toxin therapy), and patients should be encouraged to use sports equipment available at home and /or play virtual reality games. …”
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Neurophysiological gradient in the Parkinsonian subthalamic nucleus as a marker for motor symptoms and apathy by Elena Bernasconi, Deborah Amstutz, Alberto Averna, Petra Fischer, Mario Sousa, Ines Debove, Katrin Petermann, Laura Alva, Andreia D. Magalhães, M. Lenard Lachenmayer, Thuy-Anh K. Nguyen, Michael Schuepbach, Andreas Nowacki, Claudio Pollo, Paul Krack, Gerd Tinkhauser

“…Abstract Sensing-based deep brain stimulation should optimally consider both the motor and neuropsychiatric domain to maximize quality of life of Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. …”
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A Wavelet-Based Correlation Analysis Framework to Study Cerebromuscular Activity in Essential Tremor by Yifan Zhao, Ramon C. Laguna, Yitian Zhao, Jimmy Jiang Liu, Xiongxiong He, John Yianni, Ptolemaios G. Sarrigiannis

“…Objective. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) provides dramatic tremor relief in patients with severe essential tremor (ET). …”
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Systematic review of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) applications in the preoperative planning and treatment assessment of brain tumors by Hamad Yahia Abu Mhanna, Ahmad Fairuz Omar, Yasmin Md Radzi, Ammar A. Oglat, Hanan Fawaz Akhdar, Haytham Al Ewaidat, Abdallah Almahmoud, Abdel-Baset Bani Yaseen, Laith Al Badarneh, Omar Alhamad, Laith Alhamad

“…We examined the foundational principles, practical implementations, and verification of fMRI via direct brain stimulation, with particular emphasis on its capacity to detect cerebral regions affected by tumors that are eloquent in nature. …”
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Active versus sham transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) as an adjunct to varenicline treatment for smoking cessation: Study protocol for a double-blind single dummy rando... by Laurie Zawertailo, Helena Zhang, Noreen Rahmani, Tarek K Rajji, Peter Selby

“…Furthermore, the addition of longitudinal neuroimaging can shed light on neural circuitry changes that might occur as a result of brain stimulation, furthering our understanding of tDCS in addiction treatment.…”
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Pimavanserin Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis in Clinical Practice by Khashayar Dashtipour, Fiona Gupta, Robert A. Hauser, Cherian A. Karunapuzha, John C. Morgan

“…Issues addressed include distinguishing PDP from similar symptoms caused by other disorders such as dementia, coordinating pimavanserin with other PD medications and with deep brain stimulation, adapting pimavanserin dosing for optimal benefit and tolerability, and recognizing variability of PDP symptoms due to patients’ changing life circumstances. …”
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0.5 V Digitally-Tunable Filters for Biomedical Applications Exploiting Segmented Duty-Cycled Resistors by Alessandro Fava, Francesco Centurelli, Giuseppe Scotti

“…The 8th-order filter, implemented with 4 cascaded instances of the proposed biquad filter, guarantees an attenuation higher than 30 dB at <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$f_{0}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>/2 and 2f0 with a power consumption of 480 nW, and an area footprint of 0.152 mm2, thus satisfying the requirements to extract the epilepsy biomarker in closed-loop deep brain stimulation systems.…”
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Mesenchymal stem cells and their extracellular vesicle therapy for neurological disorders: traumatic brain injury and beyond by Aref Yarahmadi, Masoumeh Dorri Giv, Reza Hosseininejad, Azin Rezaie, Narges Mohammadi, Hamed Afkhami, Hamed Afkhami, Hamed Afkhami, Arastoo Farokhi

“…Current treatment methods, such as pharmacotherapy with dihydropyridines, high-pressure oxygen therapy, behavioral therapy, and non-invasive brain stimulation, have shown limited efficacy. A comprehensive understanding of vascular components is essential for developing new treatments to improve blood vessel-related brain damage. …”
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The Effects of 1 mA tACS and tRNS on Children/Adolescents and Adults: Investigating Age and Sensitivity to Sham Stimulation by Maike Splittgerber, Jan Hendrik Suwelack, Navah Ester Kadish, Vera Moliadze

“…This study contributes to the findings that noninvasive brain stimulation is well tolerated in children and adolescents including tACS, which has not been studied before. …”
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Cognitive improvement and prefrontal network interactions in individuals with remitted bipolar disorder after transcranial infrared laser stimulation by Douglas W. Barrett, Roger E. Davis, Jennifer E. Siegel-Ramsay, Amy Bichlmeier, Jorge R. C. Almeida, F. Gonzalez-Lima

“…Transcranial infrared laser stimulation (TILS) provides safe, non-invasive brain stimulation that enhances PFC metabolism via photobiomodulation of mitochondrial respiration and tissue oxygenation. …”
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White Matter Biomarkers Associated with Motor Change in Individuals with Stroke: A Continuous Theta Burst Stimulation Study by K. P. Wadden, S. Peters, M. R. Borich, J. L. Neva, K. S. Hayward, C. S. Mang, N. J. Snow, K. E. Brown, T. S. Woodward, S. K. Meehan, L. A. Boyd

“…Continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) is a form of noninvasive repetitive brain stimulation that, when delivered over the contralesional hemisphere, can influence the excitability of the ipsilesional hemisphere in individuals with stroke. cTBS applied prior to skilled motor practice interventions may augment motor learning; however, there is a high degree of variability in individual response to this intervention. …”
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Next generation bioelectronic medicine: making the case for non-invasive closed-loop autonomic neuromodulation by Imanuel Lerman, Yifeng Bu, Rahul Singh, Harold A. Silverman, Anuj Bhardwaj, Alex J. Mann, Alik Widge, Joseph Palin, Christopher Puleo, Hubert Lim

“…Early innovations, such as cardiac pacemakers and deep brain stimulation, paved the way for these sophisticated technologies. …”
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Connectome-based disentangling of epilepsy networks from insular stereoelectroencephalographic leads by Kathrin Machetanz, Eliane Weinbrenner, Thomas Volkmar Wuttke, Silke Ethofer, Randolph Helfrich, Josua Kegele, Stephan Lauxmann, Michael Alber, Sabine Rona, Marcos Tatagiba, Holger Lerche, Jürgen Honegger, Georgios Naros

“…Combining SEEG and connectomics could provide additional information about seizure propagation within the epilepsy network and might enable new treatment options in the future like deep brain stimulation.…”
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The role of the left primary motor cortex in apraxia by Ksenia Perlova, Claudia C. Schmidt, Gereon R. Fink, Peter H. Weiss

“…However, recent brain stimulation and lesion-mapping studies suggest an involvement of left M1 in motor cognitive processes—over and above its role in motor execution. …”
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Soft Metalens for Broadband Ultrasonic Focusing through Aberration Layers by Erqian Dong, Tianye Zhang, Jinhu Zhang, Xiaochun Su, Sichao Qu, Xin Ye, Zhanyuan Gao, Chengtian Gao, Jiangang Hui, Zhanxiang Wang, Nicholas X. Fang, Yu Zhang

“…By integrating soft materials, metamaterials, and gradient refractive index, the soft metalens presents future opportunities for advancing next-generation soft devices in deep-brain stimulation, non-destructive evaluation, and high-resolution ultrasound imaging.…”
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Optimizing Rehabilitation Strategy for Walking after Stroke： from Assisted Walking Training to Brain-Limb Cooperative Therapy by YAN Tiebin

“…From various traditional Chinese medicine such as acupuncture on the limbs of patient, and modern rehabilitation technologies for paralyzed limbs (such as neurodevelopmental therapy, functional electrical stimulation, walking bicycle, and walking robot, etc.) to non-invasive brain stimulation technologies for focal brain (such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial direct current stimulation, and head acupuncture, etc.). …”
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Comparing different montages of transcranial direct current stimulation on dual-task walking and cortical activity in chronic stroke: double-blinded randomized controlled trial by Pei-Ling Wong, Yea-Ru Yang, Shun-Chang Tang, Shih-Fong Huang, Ray-Yau Wang

“…Abstract Background Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a noninvasive brain stimulation to modulate cortical activity for improving motor function. …”
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Impaired insight in schizophrenia is associated with higher frontoparietal cerebral blood flow: an arterial spin labeling study by Jianmeng Song, Edgardo Carmona-Torres, Yasaman Kambari, Sofia Chavez, Fumihiko Ueno, Teruki Koizum, Aron Amaev, Ali Abdolizadeh, Vincenzo De Luca, Daniel M. Blumberger, Gary Remington, Bruce Pollock, Ariel Graff-Guerrero, Philip Gerretsen

“…These neuroimaging findings can serve as therapeutic targets for intervention, such as with non-invasive brain stimulation.…”
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The study protocol of a double-blind randomized controlled trial of EMDR and multifocal transcranial current stimulation (MtCS) as augmentation strategy in patients with fibromyalg... by I. Gardoki-Souto, O. Martín de la Torre, B. Hogg, D Redolar-Ripoll, L. Martínez Sadurní, M. Fontana-McNally, J. M. Blanch, W. Lupo, V. Pérez, J. Radua, B. L. Amann, A. Valiente-Gómez, A. Moreno-Alcázar

“…Therefore, a trauma-focused psychotherapy, such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), combined with a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, such as multifocal transcranial current stimulation (MtCS), could be an innovative adjunctive treatment option. …”
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Transcranial direct current stimulation for patients with walking difficulties caused by cerebral small vessel disease: a randomized controlled study by Qiaoqiao Xu, Qiaoqiao Xu, Wenwen Yin, Xia Zhou, Shuo Wang, Sishi Chen, Jiajia Yang, Chunhua Xi, Zhongwu Sun

“…Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), a non-invasive brain stimulation technique that applies low electrical currents to the scalp, shows promise in treating cognitive and movement disorders. …”
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