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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture // Neuromodulation of the cerebral cortex – a 
 tale of 2000 years
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr. med. Friedhelm Hummel Defitech Chair of Clinical Neu
 roengineering Centre for Neuroprosthetics (CNP) and Brain Mind Institute\,
  School of Life Sciences (SV) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
 \nStimulating the human brain to enhance brain function and behaviour\, an
 d especially to treat patients suffering from neuropsychiatric diseases is
  a dream and goal in clinical and behavioural neuroscience since more than
  2000 years. First reports applying non-invasive electrical stimulation de
 livered by discharges of electro-fish to the brain are dating back to 50 A
 C (Scribonius largus\, 43-48 AC) and are reported over the centuries. Tech
 nological developments of non-invasive brain stimulation by means of trans
 cranial magnetic or transcranial electric stimulation in the last 30 years
  and the better understanding of them\, paved the way to apply brain stimu
 lation in a focal\, controlled and safe way allowing to modulate neuro-phy
 siological parameters\, brain functioning and behaviour. Based on these de
 velopments and due to their safe and relatively easy application\, these m
 ethods gained recently large interest in different domains of neuroscience
  from neuro-enhancement of motor learning or cognition\, to improve gaming
  performance to counteract results of cognitive aging. Even more\, since 1
 0 years\, they are applied in neuropsychiatric disorders to treat these di
 seases or improve the recovery from them.\nAlthough non-invasive brain sti
 mulation is a powerful tool and first proof-of-principle results are very 
 promising\, it became more and more clear that the application and its und
 erlying mechanisms are not that simple\, but far more complex and that the
  induced neuro-modulatory effects are heterogeneous with responders and no
 n-responders with still a relevant lack of understanding\, which factors e
 xactly determine the magnitude and heterogeneity of responses. Currently\,
  there are strong efforts to better understand the mechanisms of these tec
 hnologies\, the factors of the individual brain influencing the response t
 o the stimulation and developments to apply brain stimulation in an indivi
 dualized fashion with the long-term goal of state-dependent and closed-loo
 p applications.\nThis inaugural lecture will provide an historical overvie
 w of brain stimulation\, summarize the current state of the art\, will dis
 cuss the limitation and opportunities of the methods\, ethical considerati
 ons especially the use of it in a lay environment and at the end an outloo
 k towards future developments of this field\, especially for translational
  clinical neuroscience and interventional neurology.\n 
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