Sailing in a sea of disbelief: In  vivo measurements of transcranial electric stimulation in human subcortical structures

In 2016, Gy örgy Buzsáki shocked the scientific field of transcranial electric stimulation (tES) when he showed that only a small amount of electric current applied to the scalp of a cadaver (app. 10%) can be measured in the brain [1]. This came after substantial criticism of the technique that had been build ing in the two years prior [e.g., 2]. So for tES critics the ‘cadaver study’ [1] - though never published in a peer-reviewed journal and having its own methodological issues - was the final proof that there is nothing stimulating about transcranial brain stimulation.
Source: BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation - Category: Neurology Authors: Source Type: research