Current Issue January 2012, Vol. 5, No. 1

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Original Articles

The effect of right vagus nerve stimulation on focal cerebral ischemia: an experimental study in the rat
January 2012(Vol. 5 | No. 1 | Pages 1-10)
Zhenghui Sun, Wesley Baker, Teruyuki Hiraki, Joel H. Greenberg

The involvement of posterior parietal cortex and frontal eye fields in spatially primed visual search
January 2012(Vol. 5 | No. 1 | Pages 11-17)
Alison R. Lane, Daniel T. Smith, Thomas Schenk, Amanda Ellison

Episode length and mixed features as predictors of ECT nonresponse in patients with medication-resistant major depression
January 2012(Vol. 5 | No. 1 | Pages 18-24)
G. Perugi, P. Medda, S. Zanello, C. Toni, G.B. Cassano

A neuromodulation experience registry for deep brain stimulation studies in psychiatric research: rationale and recommendations for implementation
07 November 2011
Matthis Synofzik, Joseph J. Fins, Thomas E. Schlaepfer
To the Editor: Responding to the ethical inadequacies of unregulated early psychosurgery, a US National Commission in 1977 issued a recommendation on surgical interventions in neuropsychiatric disorde...
Rebound symptoms following battery depletion in the NIH OCD DBS cohort: clinical and reimbursement issues
07 November 2011
A.K. Vora, H. Ward, K.D. Foote, W.K. Goodman, M.S. Okun
Objective: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a promising treatment for medication refractory obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD); however, there may be neuropsychiatric symptoms from unintended battery ...
Fundamentals of transcranial electric and magnetic stimulation dose: definition, selection, and reporting practices
03 November 2011
Angel V. Peterchev, Timothy A. Wagner, Pedro C. Miranda, Michael A. Nitsche, Walter Paulus, Sarah H. Lisanby, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Marom Bikson
Background: The growing use of transcranial electric and magnetic (EM) brain stimulation in basic research and in clinical applications necessitates a clear understanding of what constitutes the dose ...
Priming does not enhance the efficacy of 1 hertz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of auditory verbal hallucinations: results of a randomized controlled study
02 November 2011
Christina Wilhelmina Slotema, Jan Dirk Blom, Antoin Dave de Weijer, Hans Wijbrand Hoek, Iris Else Sommer
Background: Low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) applied to the left temporoparietal area (TP) has been investigated as a treatment method for auditory verbal hallucinatio...
Centromedian thalamic nuclei deep brain stimulation in refractory status epilepticus
31 October 2011
Antonio Valentín, Huy Q. Nguyen, Alena M. Skupenova, Zaloa Agirre-Arrizubieta, Sharon Jewell, Nandini Mullatti, Nicholas F. Moran, Mark P. Richardson, Richard P. Selway, Gonzalo Alarcón
Background: Refractory status epilepticus (RSE) is associated with high mortality. We report a potential treatment alternative. Hypothesis: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the centromedian thalamic nu...

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Durability of clinical benefit with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in the treatment of pharmacoresistant major depression: assessment of relapse during a 6-month, multisite, open-label study
October 2010 (Vol. 3 | No. 4 | Pages 187-199)
Philip G. Janicak, Ziad Nahas, Sarah H. Lisanby, H. Brent Solvason, Shirlene M. Sampson, William M. McDonald, Lauren B. Marangell, Peter Rosenquist, W. Vaughn McCall, James Kimball, John P. O’Reardon, Colleen Loo, Mustafa H. Husain, Andrew Krystal, William Gilmer, Sheila M. Dowd, Mark A. Demitrack, Alan F. Schatzberg
Fast estimation of transcranial magnetic stimulation motor threshold: is it safe?
January 2011 (Vol. 4 | No. 1 | Pages 58-59)
Friedemann Awiszus
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Motor threshold assessment in TMS research and practice: trying to see the forest through the trees
January 2011 (Vol. 4 | No. 1 | Pages 62-63)
Jeffrey J. Borckardt
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The use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to relieve pain
October 2008 (Vol. 1 | No. 4 | Pages 337-344)
Jean-Pascal Lefaucheur, Andrea Antal, Rechdi Ahdab, Daniel Ciampi de Andrade, Felipe Fregni, Eman M. Khedr, Michael Nitsche, Walter Paulus
Consensus paper: Combining transcranial stimulation with neuroimaging
April 2009 (Vol. 2 | No. 2 | Pages 58-80)
Hartwig R. Siebner, Til O. Bergmann, Sven Bestmann, Marcello Massimini, Heidi Johansen-Berg, Hitoshi Mochizuki, Daryl E. Bohning, Erie D. Boorman, Sergiu Groppa, Carlo Miniussi, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Reto Huber, Paul C.J. Taylor, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Luigi De Gennaro, Antonio P. Strafella, Seppo Kähkönen, Stefan Klöppel, Giovanni B. Frisoni, Mark S. George, Mark Hallett, Stephan A. Brandt, Matthew F. Rushworth, Ulf Ziemann, John C. Rothwell, Nick Ward, Leonardo G. Cohen, Jürgen Baudewig, Tomáš Paus, Yoshikazu Ugawa, Paolo M. Rossini

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