Project Grant R01MH123508

This federal Project Grant award of $498,429, provided by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), supports research to identify the key factors that determine an individual's response to transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). The research aims to apply machine learning algorithms to a large, multimodal dataset of over 225 tDCS-fMRI sessions to determine which factors, such as baseline task performance, brain...

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) awarded a $253,756 Project Grant (CFDA 93.853) to the University of Wisconsin - Madison to investigate the safety and neurotoxic effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on the developing brains of guinea pigs. The research aims to identify safe dosage thresholds for using tDCS, a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, in infants and young children, as tDCS is increasingly being used to promote...

This is a $223,176 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242), to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc. in Boston, MA. The grant funds a research project that aims to use high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) to the right superior temporal sulcus (rSTS) as a potential treatment approach for reducing auditory and visual hallucinations associated with psychosis-spectrum...

This federal Project Grant award of $777,016.00 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) under the Mental Health Research Grants program (CFDA 93.242) supports a study on the synaptic mechanisms underlying repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) protocols for the treatment of treatment-resistant depression. The study, titled "Synaptic Mechanisms of Continuous Theta Burst Stimulation in Depression," aims to investigate the neural mechanisms of the inhibitory...

This Project Grant award of $1,040,308 was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), to Arcadia University. The project aims to determine if non-invasive brain stimulation can improve quadriceps muscle function in individuals recovering from anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction surgery. Specifically, the project will assess whether transcranial direct current...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Mental Health (CFDA 93.242 - Mental Health Research Grants) provides $557,588 to Magnetic Tides, Inc. to develop a two-coil Kilohertz Transcranial Magnetic Perturbation (KTMP) system for non-invasive brain stimulation. The goal is to enable simultaneous stimulation of two cortical brain targets or a single deep brain target, achieving stimulation intensities not possible with existing non-invasive methods. The 12-month project...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (CFDA 93.372), is providing $346,500.00 to the University of Rochester to conduct research on selectively targeting cognitive control subnetworks using spatiotemporally optimized transcranial electrical stimulation (TES). The research aims to measure the effects of TES on...

Northeastern University was awarded a two-year, $417,913 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to acquire a controllable pulse transcranial magnetic stimulator with robotic positioning and integrated EEG/EMG capabilities for engineering and neuroscience research and education. The stimulator and positioning equipment will allow researchers to noninvasively map brain functions with precision and study neural plasticity. This infrastructure...

The Regents of the University of Minnesota received a $391,215 Project Grant from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (CFDA 93.213) to conduct research on "Mechanistic Underpinnings of Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation as a Therapeutic Approach to TBI." The project aims to utilize mouse experiments and numerical simulations to investigate how trigeminal nerve stimulation can reduce cerebral edema and improve functional outcomes in traumatic brain injury (TBI)...

The federal Project Grant award R21NS137987, in the amount of $427,625.00, was provided by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program. The award supports research at the University of Iowa to investigate whether the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)-evoked potential (TEP) in EEG recordings can serve as a non-invasive measure of cortical excitability during...