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In the past three decades, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), as the most widely used noninvasive neuromodulation techniques, have made great achievements in the treatment of various neuropsychiatric diseases such as depression, generalized anxiety disorder, pain, and AD. Transcranial near-infrared stimulation (tNIRS), as a novel neuromodulation technique, has also attracted the attention of researchers. However, it must be acknowledged that the clinical application of these techniques still faces many challenges. In addition to the uncertainty of stimulation parameters such as stimulation target and stimulation frequency, insufficient modulation efficiency is another important challenge. Studies have confirmed that modulation efficacy is not linearly correlated with stimulation intensity and duration. Therefore, simply increasing the stimulation intensity or prolonging the stimulation duration cannot correspondingly enhance its regulatory efficacy. In recent years, the combination of different neuromodulation techniques has become a hot research topic.
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Han, T., Song, P. (2023). Multimodal Brain Stimulation Techniques. In: Wang, Y. (eds) Therapeutics of Neural Stimulation for Neurological Disorders. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4538-2_13
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