Dr. Theodore Zanto ( link ) from the University of California, San Francisco visited the HBBL and presented a lecture on Thursday, January 22nd, at 4 pm, in BS-12 Room 303, entitled “Non-invasive brain stimulation in humans”:
The last decade has seen an exponential increase in the number of scientific publications using non-invasive brain stimulation in humans. Contributing to this is a continually expanding number of tools at the researcher’s disposal to non-invasively stimulate the brain. This talk will cover my recent and ongoing research efforts to study neural networks underlying cognitive function utilizing four of these neurostimulation tools: transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), and pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMF). The use of these tools is highly contingent on an a priori hypothesis, as the parameters chosen for non-invasive stimulation may differentially alter neural processes and associated behavior, for better or for worse.
