Toward noninvasive brain stimulation 2.0 in Alzheimer's disease.

Abstract

Noninvasive brain stimulation techniques (NiBS) have gathered substantial interest in the study of dementia, considered their possible role in help defining diagnostic biomarkers of altered neural activity for early disease detection and monitoring of its pathophysiological course, as well as for their therapeutic potential of boosting residual cognitive functions. Nevertheless, current approaches suffer from some limitations. In this study, we review and discuss experimental NiBS applications that might help improve the efficacy of future NiBS uses in Alzheimer's Disease (AD), including perturbation-based biomarkers for early diagnosis and disease tracking, solutions to enhance synchronization of oscillatory electroencephalographic activity across brain networks, enhancement of sleep-related memory consolidation, image-guided stimulation for connectome control, protocols targeting interneuron pathology and protein clearance, and finally hybrid-brain models for in-silico modeling of AD pathology and personalized target selection. The present work aims to stress the importance of multidisciplinary, translational, model-driven interventions for precision medicine approaches in AD.

• Authors: Arianna Menardi, Simone Rossi, Giacomo Koch, Harald Hampel, Andrea Vergallo, Michael A Nitsche, Yaakov Stern, Barbara Borroni, Stefano F Cappa, Maria Cotelli, Giulio Ruffini, Georges El-Fakhri, Paolo M Rossini, Brad Dickerson, Andrea Antal, Claudio Babiloni, Jean-Pascal Lefaucheur, Bruno Dubois, Gustavo Deco, Ulf Ziemann, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Emiliano Santarnecchi
• Journal: Ageing research reviews (Ageing Res Rev) Vol. 75 Pg. 101555 (03 2022) ISSN: 1872-9649 [Electronic] England
• PMID: 34973457 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Review)
• Copyright: Copyright © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Topics

• Alzheimer Disease (therapy)
• Brain (physiology)
• Cognition
• Humans
• Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (methods)
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (methods)