Guidelines for TMS/tES Clinical Services and Research through the COVID-19 Pandemic

Authors

Marom Bikson, The City College of New York of CUNY
Colleen A. Hanlon, Wake Forest School of Medicine
Adam J. Woods, University of Florida
Bernadette T. Gillick, University of Minnesota
Leigh Charvet, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2020

Keywords

Non-invasive brain stimulation, COVID-19, Transcranial magnetic stimulation, Transcranial direct current stimulation, Transcranial alternating current stimulation, Transcranial electrical stimulation

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brs.2020.05.010

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has broadly disrupted biomedical treatment and research including non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS). Moreover, the rapid onset of societal disruption and evolving regulatory restrictions may not have allowed for systematic planning of how clinical and research work may continue throughout the pandemic or be restarted as restrictions are abated. The urgency to provide and develop NIBS as an intervention for diverse neurological and mental health indications, and as a catalyst of fundamental brain research, is not dampened by the parallel efforts to address the most life-threatening aspects of COVID-19; rather in many cases the need for NIBS is heightened including the potential to mitigate mental health consequences related to COVID-19.

Comments

Full list of authors: Marom Bikson, Colleen A. Hanlon, Adam J. Woods, Bernadette T. Gillick, Leigh Charvet, Claus Lamm, Graziella Madeo, Adrienn Holczer, Jorge Almeida, Andrea Antal, Mohammad Reza Ay, Chris Baeken, Daniel M. Blumberger, Salvatore Campanella, Joan A. Camprodon, Lasse Christiansen, Colleen Loo, Jennifer T. Crinion, Paul Fitzgerald, Luigi Gallimberti, Peyman Ghobadi-Azbari, Iman Ghodratitoostani, Roland H. Grabner, Gesa Hartwigsen, Akimasa Hirata, Adam Kirton, Helena Knotkova, Evgeny Krupitsky, Paola Marangolo, Ester M. Nakamura-Palacios, Weronika Potok, Samir K. Praharaj, Christian C. Ruff, Gottfried Schlaug, Hartwig R. Siebner, Charlotte J. Stagg, Axel Thielscher, Nicole Wenderoth, Ti-Fei Yuan, Xiaochu Zhang, Hamed Ekhtiar

Rights Information

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Citation / Publisher Attribution

Brain Stimulation, v. 13, issue 4, p. 1124-1149

Scholar Commons Citation

Bikson, Marom; Hanlon, Colleen A.; Woods, Adam J.; Gillick, Bernadette T.; and Charvet, Leigh, "Guidelines for TMS/tES Clinical Services and Research through the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2020). All publications. 26.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/usf_fcrc_all/26