Transcranial extracellular impedance control (tEIC) modulates behavioral performances.
Electric brain stimulations such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS), and transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) electrophysiologically modulate brain activity and as a result sometimes modulate behavioral performances. These s...
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| author | Ayumu Matani Masaaki Nakayama Mayumi Watanabe Yoshikazu Furuyama Atsushi Hotta Shotaro Hoshino |
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| description | Electric brain stimulations such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS), and transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) electrophysiologically modulate brain activity and as a result sometimes modulate behavioral performances. These stimulations can be viewed from an engineering standpoint as involving an artificial electric source (DC, noise, or AC) attached to an impedance branch of a distributed parameter circuit. The distributed parameter circuit is an approximation of the brain and includes electric sources (neurons) and impedances (volume conductors). Such a brain model is linear, as is often the case with the electroencephalogram (EEG) forward model. Thus, the above-mentioned current stimulations change the current distribution in the brain depending on the locations of the electric sources in the brain. Now, if the attached artificial electric source were to be replaced with a resistor, or even a negative resistor, the resistor would also change the current distribution in the brain. In light of the superposition theorem, which holds for any linear electric circuit, attaching an electric source is different from attaching a resistor; the resistor affects each active electric source in the brain so as to increase (or decrease in some cases of a negative resistor) the current flowing out from each source. From an electrophysiological standpoint, the attached resistor can only control the extracellular impedance and never causes forced stimulation; we call this technique transcranial extracellular impedance control (tEIC). We conducted a behavioral experiment to evaluate tEIC and found evidence that it had real-time enhancement and depression effects on EEGs and a real-time facilitation effect on reaction times. Thus, tEIC could be another technique to modulate behavioral performance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-47da8018a4e441c8a1b3f8b91812bb8f2022-12-21T23:23:57ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032014-01-0197e10283410.1371/journal.pone.0102834Transcranial extracellular impedance control (tEIC) modulates behavioral performances.Ayumu MataniMasaaki NakayamaMayumi WatanabeYoshikazu FuruyamaAtsushi HottaShotaro HoshinoElectric brain stimulations such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS), and transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) electrophysiologically modulate brain activity and as a result sometimes modulate behavioral performances. These stimulations can be viewed from an engineering standpoint as involving an artificial electric source (DC, noise, or AC) attached to an impedance branch of a distributed parameter circuit. The distributed parameter circuit is an approximation of the brain and includes electric sources (neurons) and impedances (volume conductors). Such a brain model is linear, as is often the case with the electroencephalogram (EEG) forward model. Thus, the above-mentioned current stimulations change the current distribution in the brain depending on the locations of the electric sources in the brain. Now, if the attached artificial electric source were to be replaced with a resistor, or even a negative resistor, the resistor would also change the current distribution in the brain. In light of the superposition theorem, which holds for any linear electric circuit, attaching an electric source is different from attaching a resistor; the resistor affects each active electric source in the brain so as to increase (or decrease in some cases of a negative resistor) the current flowing out from each source. From an electrophysiological standpoint, the attached resistor can only control the extracellular impedance and never causes forced stimulation; we call this technique transcranial extracellular impedance control (tEIC). We conducted a behavioral experiment to evaluate tEIC and found evidence that it had real-time enhancement and depression effects on EEGs and a real-time facilitation effect on reaction times. Thus, tEIC could be another technique to modulate behavioral performance.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4105436?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Ayumu Matani Masaaki Nakayama Mayumi Watanabe Yoshikazu Furuyama Atsushi Hotta Shotaro Hoshino Transcranial extracellular impedance control (tEIC) modulates behavioral performances. PLoS ONE |
| title | Transcranial extracellular impedance control (tEIC) modulates behavioral performances. |
| title_full | Transcranial extracellular impedance control (tEIC) modulates behavioral performances. |
| title_fullStr | Transcranial extracellular impedance control (tEIC) modulates behavioral performances. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transcranial extracellular impedance control (tEIC) modulates behavioral performances. |
| title_short | Transcranial extracellular impedance control (tEIC) modulates behavioral performances. |
| title_sort | transcranial extracellular impedance control teic modulates behavioral performances |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4105436?pdf=render |
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