Neurological Disorders

Department of Mental Health Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, USA

Publications

• Research   
  A Novel Approach for Optimizing the Design of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Coil for the Human Brain
  Author(s): Charles Lu*, Zhi-De Deng and Fow-Sen Choa
  
  Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a neuromodulation technique that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for several neuropsychiatric disorders, including major depression and obsessive compulsive disorder. It is also applied as a research tool for neurological disorders. However, the therapeutic efficacy of TMS treatment has been modest, despite of decades of research. While there are many potential reasons as to why, one of the most obvious is the technological limitations of current technologies. One prominent example is the penetration depth focality tradeoff of existing TMS coils. The most widely used Figure of 8 coils stimulate brain regions just superficially under the coil, missing deep brain regions known to be critically involved in psychiatric disorders; while ring type coils can stimulate deep into the brain, but stimulate a large brain volume (lac.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2329-6895.10.2.478

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