ArticleCurrent opinion in biomedical engineering2018
Physiological effects of low-magnitude electric fields on brain activity: advances from
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- Transcranial current stimulation in epilepsy: A systematic review of the fundamental and clinical aspects.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
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- Temporal interference stimulation for deep brain neuromodulation in humans.Nature biomedical engineering · 2026Review
- Effects of Extracellular Resistance on Neuronal Sensitivity Under Weak Alternating Electric Field Stimulation: A Computational Study.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Long-term Effect of Multichannel tDCS Protocol in Patients with Central Cortex Epilepsies Associated with Epilepsia Partialis Continua.Brain topography · 2024Article
- Reinterpreting published tDCS results in terms of a cranial and cervical nerve co-stimulation mechanism.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Understanding the effects of cortical gyrification in tACS: insights from experiments and computational models.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Possible Synergies of Nanomaterial-Assisted Tissue Regeneration in Plasma Medicine: Mechanisms and Safety Concerns.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Personalized tDCS for Focal Epilepsy-A Narrative Review: A Data-Driven Workflow Based on Imaging and EEG Data.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Toward integrative approaches to study the causal role of neural oscillations via transcranial electrical stimulation.Nature communications · 2021Review
- Realistic modeling of mesoscopic ephaptic coupling in the human brain.PLoS computational biology · 2020Article
- Modelling acute and lasting effects of tDCS on epileptic activity.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2020Article
- Decoding the circuitry of consciousness: From local microcircuits to brain-scale networks.Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2020Review
- Current challenges: the ups and downs of tACS.Experimental brain research · 2019Review
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Abstract
While electrical stimulation of brain tissue has been thoroughly investigated over the last decades, ongoing questions remain regarding the neurophysiological effects of low-level electric fields (on the order of 1 V/m) on brain activity. Electric fields at such levels are, for example, induced by transcranial direct/alternating current stimulation (tDCS/tACS). Action potentials can be indeed elicited when applied (supra-threshold) electric fields are in the 10-100 V/m range, while lower (subthreshold) electric fields result in more limited and subtler membrane polarization effects. In this review, we address the question of the mechanisms underlying the immediate effects (also referred to as acute, concurrent or short-term) and the lasting effects (also referred to as long-term or aftereffects) of low-level electric fields on brain tissue. We review recent evidence at the
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