Author(s): Edmund S. Higgins (Author), Mark S. George (Author)
Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
Publication Date: September 15, 2008
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 203 pages
ISBN-10: 158562280X
ISBN-13: 9781585622801
Book Description
Brain stimulation the field of focally applying electricity to the brain is a rapidly growing and promising world of techniques that are effective in treating conditions ranging from Parkinson s disease to depression. Comprehensively surveying the state of current practice, Brain Stimulation Therapies for Clinicians provides a clear and straightforward analysis of its many therapeutic applications and the technologies and techniques involved in each. Beginning with a quick, accessible overview of electricity and its effect on the brain, Brain Stimulation Therapies for Clinicians covers the range of electrical stimulation therapies, including electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), deep brain stimulation (DBS), and a host of other clinical applications. Each chapter explores a particular therapy, including its history, the techniques involved, clinical indications, side effects, and a critical review of the literature surrounding its efficacy. Clear illustrations and a helpful glossary are provided to assist and orient the clinician. Written by a pioneer in the field and a cutting-edge clinical practitioner, Brain Stimulation Therapies for Clinicians is an essential reference for any clinician wanting to understand electrical stimulation therapies.
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Review
This is an excellent comprehensive textbook for both practicing clinicians and scientists starting from basic physics and brain neurophysiology and running through all brain stimulation methods and their clinical applications. The reader will understand fascinating perspectives within a rising field of research which has been recently moving from non-specific interventions to the targeted modulation of neuronal circuitries and their behavioral, cognitive and emotional functions. –Frank Padberg, M.D., Ph.D., Research Group Transcranial Brain Stimulation and Neuroplasticity, Director, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich
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Brain stimulation — the field of focally applying electricity to the brain — is a rapidly growing and promising world of techniques that are effective in treating conditions ranging from Parkinson’s disease to depression. Comprehensively surveying the state of current practice, Brain Stimulation Therapies for Clinicians provides a clear and straightforward analysis of its many therapeutic applications and the technologies and techniques involved in each.
Beginning with a quick, accessible overview of electricity and its effect on the brain, Brain Stimulation Therapies for Clinicians covers the range of electrical stimulation therapies, including electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), deep brain stimulation (DBS), and a host of other clinical applications. Each chapter explores a particular therapy, including its history, the techniques involved, clinical indications, side effects, and a critical review of the literature surrounding its efficacy. Clear illustrations and a helpful glossary are provided to assist and orient the clinician.
Written by a pioneer in the field and a cutting-edge clinical practitioner, Brain Stimulation Therapies for Clinicians is an essential reference for any clinician wanting to understand electrical stimulation therapies.
About the Author
Edmund S. Higgins, M.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston. Mark S. George, M.D., is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Radiology, and Neuroscience as well as Director of the Center for Advanced Imaging Research and the Brain Stimulation Laboratory at the Medical University of South Carolina. At MUSC, he has conducted pioneering work with functional imaging of the brain and several of the brain stimulation techniques, particularly transcranial magnetic stimulation and vagus nerve stimulation. He is also the editor-in-chief of Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation.
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