98%
921
2 minutes
20
Implantable magnetic stimulation is an emerging type of neuromodulation using coils that are small enough to be implanted in the brain. A major advantage of this method is that stimulation performance could be sustained even though the coil is encapsulated by gliosis due to foreign body reactions. Magnetic fields can induce indirect electric fields and currents in neurons. Compared to transcranial magnetic stimulation, the coil size used in implantable magnetic stimulation can be greatly reduced. However, the size reduction is accompanied by an increase in coil resistance. Hence, the coil could potentially damage neurons from the excess heat generated. Therefore, it is necessary to study the stimulation performance and possible thermal damage by implantable magnetic stimulation. Here, we devised contact-mode magnetic stimulation (CMS), wherein magnetic stimulation was applied to hippocampal slices through a customized planar-type coil underneath the slice in the contact mode. With acute hippocampal slices, we investigated the synaptic responses to examine the field excitatory postsynaptic responses of CMS and the temperature rise during CMS. A long-lasting synaptic depression was exhibited in the CA1 stratum radiatum after CMS, while the temperature remained in a safe range so as not to seriously affect the neural responses.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
---|---|
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6128857 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-31536-w | DOI Listing |
Brain Stimul
September 2025
Department of Philosophy, University of Milan, Milan, via Festa Del Perdono, 7, 20122, Italy; Cognition in Action (CIA) Unit, PHILAB, University of Milan, Via Santa Sofia, 9, 20122, Italy. Electronic address:
Background: To investigate covert motor processes, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies often use motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) as a proxy for inferring the state of motor representations. Typically, these studies test motor representations of actions that can be produced by the isolated contraction of one muscle, limiting both the number of recorded muscles and the complexity of tested actions. Furthermore, univariate analyses treat MEPs from different muscles as independent, overlooking potentially meaningful intermuscular relationships encoded in MEPs amplitude patterns at the single-trial level.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWater Res
August 2025
State Key Laboratory of Regional Environment and Sustainability, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Beijing Laboratory of Environment Frontier Technologies, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China; Key Laboratory of Drinking Water Science and
Oligotrophic groundwater limits biodegradation in sand filtration, illuminating the pathway of the in-situ production of oxidatively active Mn oxide (MnOx) to remove emerging contaminants (ECs). Based on the Mn(II) removal filter, increased production of chemical MnOx (CheMnOx) for EC removal could be realized by increasing biogenic MnOx (BioMnOx) as the Mn active film to stimulate autocatalytic Mn(II) oxidation. However, progress in exogenously enhancing biogenic Mn(II) oxidation is limited.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEpilepsia
September 2025
Department of Neurosurgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Objective: This study aims to determine whether the anatomically heterogeneous lesions that cause hyperkinetic seizures (HKS) are connected to a common functional network.
Methods: We identified patients from the Beijing Tiantan-Fengtai Epilepsy Center with HKs as the primary ictal semiology. These included patients had focal seizure-onset zone, here referred to as a "lesion.
Nat Commun
September 2025
Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, London, UK.
We introduce an advanced transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) system for precise deep brain neuromodulation, featuring a 256-element helmet-shaped transducer array (555 kHz), stereotactic positioning, individualised planning, and real-time fMRI monitoring. Experiments demonstrated selective modulation of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and connected visual cortex regions. Participants showed significantly increased visual cortex activity during concurrent TUS and visual stimulation, with high cross-individual reproducibility.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeuroimage
September 2025
Center for Bioelectric Interfaces, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia; LLC "Life Improvement by Future Technologies Center", Moscow, Russia; AIRI, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Moscow, Russia. Electronic address:
Objective: Upcoming neuroscientific research will require bidirectional and context dependent interaction with nervous tissue. To facilitate the future neuroscientific discoveries we have created HarPULL, a genuinely real-time system for tracking oscillatory brain state.
Approach: The HarPULL technology ensures reliable, accurate and affordable real-time phase and amplitude tracking based on the state-space estimation framework operationalized by Kalman filtering.