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Computational modeling of neurostimulation in brain diseases

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Yujiang WangORCiD, Dr Frances TurnerORCiD, Professor Marcus Kaiser

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Abstract

Neurostimulation as a therapeutic tool has been developed and used for a range of different diseases such as Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, and migraine. However, it is not known why the efficacy of the stimulation varies dramatically across patients or why some patients suffer from severe side effects. This is largely due to the lack of mechanistic understanding of neurostimulation. Hence, theoretical computational approaches to address this issue are in demand.This chapter provides a review of mechanistic computational modeling of brain stimulation. In particular, we will focus on brain diseases, where mechanistic models (e.g., neural population models or detailed neuronal models) have been used to bridge the gap between cellular-level processes of affected neural circuits and the symptomatic expression of disease dynamics. We show how such models have been, and can be, used to investigate the effects of neurostimulation in the diseased brain. We argue that these models are crucial for the mechanistic understanding of the effect of stimulation, allowing for a rational design of stimulation protocols. Based on mechanistic models, we argue that the development of closed-loop stimulation is essential in order to avoid inference with healthy ongoing brain activity. Furthermore, patient-specific data, such as neuroanatomic information and connectivity profiles obtainable from neuroimaging, can be readily incorporated to address the clinical issue of variability in efficacy between subjects.We conclude that mechanistic computational models can and should play a key role in the rational design of effective, fully integrated, patient-specific therapeutic brain stimulation.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Wang YJ, Hutchings F, Kaiser M

Publication type: Review

Publication status: Published

Journal: Progress in Brain Research

Year: 2015

Volume: 222

Pages: 191-228

Online publication date: 29/07/2015

Acceptance date: 01/01/1900

ISSN (print): 0079-6123

Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2015.06.012

DOI: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2015.06.012


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