TY - GEN
T1 - Deep transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders in elderly people
T2 - 17th International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, ICEAA 2015
AU - Fiocchi, S.
AU - Parazzini, M.
AU - Liorni, I.
AU - Roth, Y.
AU - Zangen, A.
AU - Ravazzani, P.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/10/12
Y1 - 2015/10/12
N2 - There is an increasing interest in the advancement of TMS coils for the treatment of various neuropsychiatric disorders, which affect in particular elderly people. To that purpose, lately, specific coils, such as the family of the Hesed (H) coils, able to improve the penetration depth of the stimulation, was developed. In order to establish their real stimulation effectiveness, possibly limited by the prefrontal atrophy that characterize the elderly brain, this study provides a full characterization of the electric field distribution induced inside cerebral tissues. That was performed by making use of computational electromagnetics techniques applied to two human models of different ages including an 84 years-old man model.
AB - There is an increasing interest in the advancement of TMS coils for the treatment of various neuropsychiatric disorders, which affect in particular elderly people. To that purpose, lately, specific coils, such as the family of the Hesed (H) coils, able to improve the penetration depth of the stimulation, was developed. In order to establish their real stimulation effectiveness, possibly limited by the prefrontal atrophy that characterize the elderly brain, this study provides a full characterization of the electric field distribution induced inside cerebral tissues. That was performed by making use of computational electromagnetics techniques applied to two human models of different ages including an 84 years-old man model.
KW - Biological system modeling
KW - Brain models
KW - Coils
KW - Computational modeling
KW - Magnetic stimulation
KW - Senior citizens
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84955489503&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297151
DO - 10.1109/ICEAA.2015.7297151
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84955489503
T3 - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, ICEAA 2015
SP - 448
EP - 451
BT - Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, ICEAA 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Y2 - 7 September 2015 through 11 September 2015
ER -