Therapeutic Applications
Examples of therapeutic EBS are:
- Cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES)
- Deep brain stimulation (DBS)
- Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
- Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
- Functional electrical stimulation (FES)
- Magnetic seizure therapy (MST)
- Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)
Strong electric currents may cause a localized lesion in the nervous tissue, instead of a functional reversible stimulation. This property has been used for neurosurgical procedures in a variety of treatments, such as for Parkinson's disease, focal epilepsy and psychosurgery. Sometimes the same electrode is used to probe the brain for finding defective functions, before passing the lesioning current (electrocoagulation).
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