BACKGROUND Transcranial electric stimulation (tES) protocols are able to induce neuromodulation, offering important insights to focus and constrain theories of the relationship between brain and behavior. Previous studies have shown that different types of tES (i.e., direct current stimulation - tDCS, and random noise stimulation - tRNS) induce different facilitatory behavioral effects. However...

Treatment of tinnitus with tinnitus coping therapy, tinnitus maskers, tinnitus retraining therapy, customized sound therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial direct current stimulation, transcutaneous electrical stimulation of the ear, transmeatal laser irradiation, electromagnetic energy, and botulinum toxin type A injections is considered investigational, as there is insufficie...

Noninvasive transcranial focal electrical stimulation (TFS) via tripolar concentric ring electrodes (TCREs) has been under development as an alternative/complementary therapy for seizure control. Transcranial focal electrical stimulation has shown efficacy in attenuating penicillin-, pilocarpine-, and pentylenetetrazole-induced acute seizures in rat models. This study evaluated the effects of T...

We developed a system that gave electrical stimulation with intensity in proportion to the voluntary EMG through the EMG recording electrodes, and used it for hemiplegic traning. The training effect was observed in long (a month of the training) and short (ten minutes after the training) period. We investigated this training effect of this system physiologically. We carried out two experiments;...

To clarify the excitability of spinal motor neuron function after transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TES), we investigated the F-wave before and after TES. Fourteen healthy volunteers with a mean age of 23.4 years were studied. TES was applied to the flexor hallucis brevis (FHB) for 15 minutes. F-wave and M-wave were recorded from the FHB after tibial nerve stimulation at the ankle before T...

Measuring the electric field generated in several deep brain structures during Transcranial electrical stimulation humans in-vivo. In addition, we investigated effects of TES intensities and montages on intracerebral EF. (TES) has shown for last decades promises as a treatment neurological psychiatric disorders. Its efficiency is related to amount (EF) magnitude delivered target. Very few studi...

Transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TES) is being used more frequently by speech-language pathologists to treat individuals with dysphagia since the advent of VitalStim ® . Anecdotal reports suggest changes in voice quality associated with TES. This study was completed to examine acoustic measures of voice change in normal speakers following TES. Thirty speakers with normal voices, ages 19-5...