Technical content on neuromodulation and neurotechnolgy including transcranial; Electrical Stimulation (tES), transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tDCS), ECT, Spina Cord Stimulation (SCS), deep brain stimulation (DBS) and integrated imaging techniques such as EEG and MRI. Presentations by Prof. Marom Bikson of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The City College of New York (CCNY) of the City University of New York (CUNY(
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Neuromodulation is being performed en mass with the aid of microfluidics. If you make people in the gubment upset they will use Optogenetics to make you poop yourself. How's that sound, Mr. Smarty Pants? You are so smart. not s.m.a.r.t. just smart.
Dear Marom, I find the topic you are addressing fascinating. It fills me with enthusiasm, curiosity, ideas, and opens up a range of questions. I will continue to follow your work.
Hello Doctor! My recently high functions/honor student teenage nephew has been diagnosed with Deficit Disorder Schizophrenia. He's almost 18 & is now not independently functioning at school or socially. Doctors want to switch him to Clozapine. Can tDCS help him & give us some much-needed HOPE? I'm researching all I can to looks for an alternate/cutting edge option, that isn't tons of medications. Please reply and direct me where to look, who to call that might be an expert on this technology for schizophrenia. Thank you!
Thank you for a very informative video. Please could you give me some advice. My Dad was diagnosed with Parkinsons disease in 2009. His back became hunched and his arms would hang and tremble. In March 2016 he had a Lacuna stroke at the back of his brain on the left hemisphere. His speech was damaged and he is unable to talk (dysarthria). He can’t formulate the sounds he makes into words as his tongue movement is extremely limited. He is also unable to swallow (dysphagia) and dribbles constantly whilst he is also partially paralysed on the right side of his body. Though he can move both his arms slowly, over the years the Parkinsons has caused the right wrist joint to chronically bend whilst the fingers in his left hand have chronically clasped together. Me and my family have not been able to have conversation with him since Mar 2016 even though we were told that the type of stroke he had he would likely recover from as most people recover from it. The Doctors said it’s possible that the Parkinsons was effecting healing. In November 2022 we were told the sad news that my Dad has a weak heart and that it could give out at anytime. We are so desperate to talk to our Dad/husband (in his mid 80s) before he passes. I recently purchased a TDCS device from caputron and have been carrying out TDCS on his brain over the primary motor cortex region (from what I can tell from what I researched) whilst doing speech therapy exercises at the same time. Although I have researched lots of information about this and I’m sure I’m applying it right I would like your advice on how to go about trying to restore his speech and swallowing? What’s the best way to independently go about this? How can I get the best bang for my buck and optimise results? You mention TBS; is that worth looking in to this as well? Is there any reference/info you can point me to that would help? Your help would truly be appreciated. We have been praying constantly and have been keeping hope alive that he may talk to us again at the very least but we are running out of solutions so your help is very welcomed.
I've heard him in another video talking about how - following TMS w/ tDCS - that it boosts the effectiveness of brain stimulation. This seems be a further confirmation that this is the case. To me it sounds like the desired plasticity only occurs when this is the case. So I've been using a tDCS device daily for about 2 weeks and I am wondering if it's effective!
@@aurasensor yeah.. I've been using it for about 6 months steady.. if this is something you want to try its the way to go.. pretty sure I got it off of Amazon and it was fairly inexpensive
One way to access clinically supervised home-based tDCS (anywhere in the country) is through the NYU tele-health program nyulangone.org/locations/tdcs-program
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This is totally not my field although I do come from EHS, but I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciate the information. Thanks for sharing research and considerations. 🙂
I don't doubt anything you are saying sir, but I would like to point out one small thing from an electrical perspective, and this may be nothing or it may change the way that you look at the evidence collected. Electricity flows from ground. In other words the electrons move the opposite direction than what you are portraying. Just saying.
Thank you. We define electrical flow as positive charge quantity (e.g ohms law). You are correct in metal (wires), electrons are the actual charge carriers and would flow opposite to this current flow direction. In the body, ions (both positive and negative) are the charge carriers. Please also see static1.squarespace.com/static/5cd3231cd7819e6ae55fedb4/t/5cfe9e5edde43a000159ce0d/1560190559668/Electrical+stimulation+of+excitable+tissue+design+of+efficacious+and+safe+protocols..pdf
@@rhetoric5173 Excellent question. Current that flows into a neuron (from outside to in) will produce hyper-polarization, while current that flows out of a neuron (from inside to out) will produce depolarization (remembering we are thinking of current flow as a positive quantity, so this directionality respects ohms law). The key idea is that (because of another electrical idea, the conservation of current) any current that flows INTO a neuron must flow OUT of the neuron at another location. And vice versa. This means that in all electrical stimulation, including tDCS, there is no such thing as a ONLY depolarized or an ONLY hyper-polarized neuron. Rather, every neuron has some parts (some compartments) depolarized and some compartments hyper polarized. It is generally the case that the neuron parts (compartments) nearer the anode will hyper-polarized. And neuron parts (compartments) nearer the cathode will be depolarized. You can also think of it as neuron parts (compartments) pointed toward the anode or cathode. I talk about it more in this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WPE7mU3myfk.html
@@MaromBikson Thank you for your detailed answer professor, I have watched the seminar there and also the shared mechanisms of tdcs, tacs and temporal interference. In regards to Cellular Mechanisms of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation lecture: The increase i inhibitory activity is remarkable and something i never considered though was aware of, given the number of variables involved into this I can see how cathode stimulation is more than it would appear, by decreasing the inhibitory activity, does this allow for more modulated activity in deeper regions? I understand that this is a very difficult question, but I had always been mostly interested in Gamma activity, and the recent findings about gamma desynchronization in outer regions is folloed by synchrony in deeper regions was quite fascinationg, some researched applied cathodal stimulation to the left hemispehre and it produced some rather interesting results with regards to cognition as opposed to anodal stimulation. Yutube is deleting my comments so i dont think I can post links or cite papers here. But how would that factor into the given dichootmy between anodes and cathodes? I also had the obvious question of how would TACs factor into this, is it possible to induce phase locking through TACs, and after watching the lecture here it seemed that using TDCs and TACs concurrently would produce the best results, though I'm not sure how anode and cathode would function into it, it would be a very complex theoretical challenge to figure exactly what is going on and factoring in the anatomy adds several further layers (personally I cant help but feel TRNs is the most functional due to intractible complexity at the time being). Seeing the second lecture regarding temproa; intereference, I'm not sure of anode-cathode placement presented in the paper, how are are both sides stimulated concurrently? The subharmonics section was also very interesting.
@@MaromBikson Thank you for your detailed answer professor, I have watched the seminar there and also the shared mechanisms of tdcs, tacs and temporal interference, have some questions.
@39:34 "tDCS in its own not much of an effect. tDCS on an active system has an effect...tDCS should not be applied on its own." why this statement is not on bold letters on the package?
i'm planning to buy a FLOW unit second i have the income for it. but the attraction for me is knowing it's how the brain works EM and i believe it's possible to trigger sensory feedback eventually creating sound vision touch taste and smell in a simulation.
