Abstract
Editorial: The safety and efficacy of noninvasive brain stimulation in development and neurodevelopmental disorders.
Highlights
Noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation are emerging as neuroscientific techniques that can be used as in vivo probes of brain function as well as therapeutic tools in a number of psychiatric and neurological disorders
Clinical trials and case series designs have been used to develop novel therapeutic interventions using these NIBS techniques in pediatric clinical populations and researchers are forming working groups dedicated to the application of NIBS to specific neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g., Autism Spectrum Disorder, Oberman et al, 2014a)
The papers in this research topic highlight the excitement in the field and the promise of these techniques both for the understanding of neurodevelopment (Pedapati et al, 2015) and neuropathology of neurodevelopmental disorders (Croarkin et al, 2014; Oberman et al, 2014b) as well as novel treatment development for neurodevelopmental disorders (Casanova et al, 2014; Gillick et al, 2014). This excitement and promise, is appropriately tempered by other papers in this research topic that highlight the unknown risks and potential ethical concerns related to applying these techniques in pediatric populations (Davis, 2014; Maslen et al, 2014)
Summary
Noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques including transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) are emerging as neuroscientific techniques that can be used as in vivo probes of brain function as well as therapeutic tools in a number of psychiatric and neurological disorders. Editorial: The safety and efficacy of noninvasive brain stimulation in development and neurodevelopmental disorders.
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