Controlling brain activity

What is it about?

Causal methods to interrogate brain function have been employed since the advent of modern neuroscience in the nineteenth century. New, more and more precise approaches to alter brain activity are shaping current research and clinical practice. This special issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society reviews what we have learned from changing brain activity, provides insights into cutting edge reasearch and clinical approaches and discusses future challenges.

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Why is it important?

The ability to control brain activity not only deepens our understanding of brain function but also provides new avenues for clinical intervention, particularly in conditions where brain processing has gone awry.