Neurológia pre prax 6/2018
Neinvazivní mozková stimulace v behaviorální a kognitivní neurologii
Noninvasive brain stimulation brings alternative insight into rehabilitation and treatment of neurological diseases. The research moved forward in recent years. Based on clinical controlled studies there seems to be clinically meaningful effect in different groups of neurological patients with no serious side effects. Methods were so far clinically approved only for treatment of medically resistant depression, but studies indicate potential future use also in a therapy of depressive symptoms caused by other diseases, rehabilitation of aphasia or cognitive symptoms in early stages of neurodegenerative diseases. In the current review, the reader is briefly introduced to the NIMS methods and results of published research studies.
Keywords: noninvasive brain stimulation, tDCS, rTMS, depression, aphasia, Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease












