Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation: Research
At the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation (CNBS) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School we have three distinct missions:
- Research
- Education
- Patient Care
Research explores brain-behavior relations, brain plasticity and its modulation, employing different noninvasive brain stimulation techiques combined with careful task design, electroencephalography, and functional brain imaging. Educational efforts feature a week long intensive course in noninvasive brain stimulation offered three times per year as part of Harvard’s Continuing Medical Education program. Clinical work includes studies of central motor conduction time, cortical excitability, noninvasive determination of hemispheric dominance for language, and noninvasive cortical mapping. In addition, our clinical program offers noninvasive brain stimulation for treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia, epilepsy, dystonia, Parkinson’s disease, chronic pain, and the neurorehabilitation of hand function and language after stroke. We study and utilize different non-invasive methods of brain stimulation:
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)
