Plenary Lecture
Evaluation of the Effect of pico-Tesla Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Patients with Various CNS Disorders Using the SQUID
Professor Photios Anninos
Department of Medicine
Democritus University of Thrace
Alexandroupolis, Greece
E-mail: anninosf@otenet.gr
Abstract: MEG recordings of patients with CNS disorders were obtained using a whole-head 122-channel magnetometer SQUID and analyzed using Fourier statistical analysis. External magnetic stimulation in the order of pico Tesla (pTMS) was applied on the above patients with proper characteristics(magnetic field amplitude: 1-7.5pT, ftrequency: the alpha-rhythm of the patient:8-13Hz) which were obtained with MEG recordings prior to pTMS. The MEG recordings after the application of pTMSshown a rapid attenuation of the high abnormal activity followed by an increase of the number of the low frequency components toward the patients alpha-rhythm. The possible mechanisms by which the magnetic stimulation is acting are discussed.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Prof. P. Anninos is Emeritus Prof. of Medical Physics in the Department of Medicine of Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece after serving there as a Professor of Medical Physics for many years. His research interests concern Theoretical neural models, experimental Neurophysiology with emphasis in MEG measurements using SQUID’s and the use of pTMS in patients with CNS disorders.
He has published more than 200 scientific papers in reviewed journals and has written several books in his field. He is a scientific reviewer for several international Journals.