Brain stimulation technologies are at once promising, fascinating, and terrifying. For those
bedridden or otherwise crippled by movement disorders, they represent relief that …

There has been much recent excitement amongst neuroscientists and ethicists about the
possibility of using drugs, as well as other technologies, to enhance cognition in healthy …

The Stimulated Brain—which garnered an Honorable Mention for Biomedicine &
Neuroscience at the 2015 PROSE Awards from the Association of American Publishers …

Since Cerletti's first use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in 1938, several themes have
emerged in the field of brain stimulation. These include, with new technologies and even …

Of many emerging technologies that improve clinical practice, brain stimulation devices
have the capacity to repair and enhance cognitive and behavioral functioning in humans. It …

The present work critically examines two assumptions frequently stated by supporters of
cognitive neuroenhancement. The first, explicitly methodological, assumption is the …

This chapter presents a multifaceted view of the main stimulation techniques available for
the study and treatment of addictions and abuses of various substances such as nicotine …

Many of us working in brain stimulation have the hope that our work may be useful to clinical
populations and some, a group to which I don't belong, look to their work being useful in …

Localized stimulation of the human brain to treat neuropsychiatric disorders has been in
place for over 20 years. Although these methods have been used to a greater extent for …

A basic fear in today's competitive society is not measuring up." Brain Gain," Margaret
Talbot's insightful and troubling article in The New Yorker in April 2009, opened the way to …