Brain stimulation is a fast-growing field of neurotechnology that induces neuromodulation effects in the central nervous system by delivering controllable physical energy. The brain stimulation technologies for human applications, via invasive or noninvasive approaches, provide the means to interact with brain activities by injecting electrical current, magnetic field, acoustic waves, or other energy forms. These technologies can effectively induce certain brain states, augment brain endogenous signals, enable perturbation-based neuroimaging and suppress specific brain disorders. The technologies can be used to excite or inhibit neural circuits in controlled ways, depending on the stimulation parameters and paradigms used. Such promising neuromodulation approaches can offer spatially specific and temporally precise ways to interact with the brain which have tremendous significance in human neuroscience research and in clinical translational practices.
In this Research Topic: Brain Stimulation and Interfacing for the Brain-Computer Interfaces section of the Frontiers in Human Neuroscience journal, we welcome research articles that address how to identify optimal brain targets for stimulation and determine effective stimulation protocol/paradigm/parameters for improving the interfacing between human brains and the computer/machine. We further welcome research articles that discuss problems in bidirectional brain-computer interface, integrating brain stimulation with brain decoding.
Original research articles relevant to, but not limited to, the following topics are invited:
• Recent advances to integrate brain stimulation with brain decoding for brain-computer interface including deep brain stimulation.
• Transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial electrical stimulation, and transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation, to enhance the spatial specificity of stimulation for improved effectiveness.
• Developments of a multi-modal approach with simultaneous feedback control for closed-loop dosing of brain stimulation, to minimize risks of biological tissue damage and diminish side-effects for safety consideration.
• Studies aiming to have a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in the human brain stimulation modalities.
This Research Topic will include research articles that apply any of the above or related methods to modulate the human central nervous system invasively or noninvasively. Published articles will contribute to a better understanding or a more effective control of the brain stimulation effects, specifically focusing on how the brain stimulation methods can be integrated as a part of a brain-computer interface.
Brain stimulation is a fast-growing field of neurotechnology that induces neuromodulation effects in the central nervous system by delivering controllable physical energy. The brain stimulation technologies for human applications, via invasive or noninvasive approaches, provide the means to interact with brain activities by injecting electrical current, magnetic field, acoustic waves, or other energy forms. These technologies can effectively induce certain brain states, augment brain endogenous signals, enable perturbation-based neuroimaging and suppress specific brain disorders. The technologies can be used to excite or inhibit neural circuits in controlled ways, depending on the stimulation parameters and paradigms used. Such promising neuromodulation approaches can offer spatially specific and temporally precise ways to interact with the brain which have tremendous significance in human neuroscience research and in clinical translational practices.
In this Research Topic: Brain Stimulation and Interfacing for the Brain-Computer Interfaces section of the Frontiers in Human Neuroscience journal, we welcome research articles that address how to identify optimal brain targets for stimulation and determine effective stimulation protocol/paradigm/parameters for improving the interfacing between human brains and the computer/machine. We further welcome research articles that discuss problems in bidirectional brain-computer interface, integrating brain stimulation with brain decoding.
Original research articles relevant to, but not limited to, the following topics are invited:
• Recent advances to integrate brain stimulation with brain decoding for brain-computer interface including deep brain stimulation.
• Transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial electrical stimulation, and transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation, to enhance the spatial specificity of stimulation for improved effectiveness.
• Developments of a multi-modal approach with simultaneous feedback control for closed-loop dosing of brain stimulation, to minimize risks of biological tissue damage and diminish side-effects for safety consideration.
• Studies aiming to have a better understanding of the mechanisms involved in the human brain stimulation modalities.
This Research Topic will include research articles that apply any of the above or related methods to modulate the human central nervous system invasively or noninvasively. Published articles will contribute to a better understanding or a more effective control of the brain stimulation effects, specifically focusing on how the brain stimulation methods can be integrated as a part of a brain-computer interface.