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Journal Publications on TFS

  • Khatoun, A., Asamoah B., and McLaughlin, M., Investigating the Feasibility of Epicranial Cortical Stimulation Using Concentric-Ring Electrodes: A Novel Minimally Invasive Neuromodulation Method, Front. Neurosci., 2019, 13: 773.
  • Valdés-Cruz, Villasana-Salazar B., Williams B., Martínez-Vargasa D., Magdaleno-Madrigala V., Almazán-Alvaradoa S., Besio W., Transcranial focal electrical stimulation via concentric ring electrodes in freely moving cats: Antiepileptogenic and postictal effects, Experimental Neurology, Vol. 320, Oct. 2019, Article 113012.
  • César E. Santana-Gómez, Víctor Magdaleno-Madrigal, David Alcántara-González, Walter Besio, Hiram Luna-Mungia, Luisa Rocha, Ivette Bañuelos-Cabrera, Transcranial focal electrical stimulation reduces the convulsive expression and amino acid release in the hippocampus during pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus in rats, Epilepsy & Behavior, 49:33-9, 2015.
  • Besio W., Cuellar-Herrera M., Luna-Munguia H., Orozco-Suárez S., Rocha L., Effects of transcranial focal electrical stimulation alone and associated with a sub-effective dose of diazepam on pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus and subsequent neuronal damage in rats, Epilepsy & Behavior, vol. 28, pp. 432-436, September 2013.
  • Besio W., Makeyev O., Medvedev A., Gale K., Effects of transcranial focal stimulation via tripolar concentric ring electrodes on pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures in rats, Epilepsy Research, vol. 105, no. 1-2, pp. 42-51, July 2013.
  • Makeyev O., Luna-Munguía H., Rogel-Salazar G., Liu X., Besio W., Noninvasive transcranial focal stimulation via tripolar concentric ring electrodes lessens behavioral seizure activity of recurrent pentylenetetrazole administrations in rats, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 383-390, May 2013.
  • Rogel-Salazar G., Luna-Munguía H., Stevens K.E., Besio W.G., Transcranial focal electrical stimulation via tripolar concentric ring electrodes does not modify the short- and long-term memory formation in rats evaluated in the novel object recognition test, Epilepsy & Behavior, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 154-158, April 2013.
  • Makeyev O., Liu X., Luna-Munguía H., Rogel-Salazar G., Mucio-Ramirez S., Liu Y., Sun Y., Kay S., Besio W., Toward a noninvasive automatic seizure control system in rats with transcranial focal stimulations via tripolar concentric ring electrodes, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 20, no 4, pp. 422-431, July 2012.
  • Besio W., Liu X., Wang L., Medvedev A., Koka K., Trancutaneous Focal Electrical Stimulation Via Concentric Ring Electrodes Reduced Synchrony Induced By Pentylenetetrazole In Beta And Gamma Bands In Rats, International Journal of Neural Systems, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 139-149, April 2011.
  • Besio W., Sharma V., Spaulding J., The Effects of Concentric Ring Electrode Electrical Stimulation on Rat Skin, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 1111-1118, March 2010.
  • Besio W., Gale K., Medvedev A., Possible therapeutic effects of transcutaneous electrical stimulation via concentric ring electrodes, Xth Workshop on Neurobiology of Epilepsy (WONOEP 2009), Epilepsia, vol. 51, no.3, pp. 85-87, 2010.
  • Schachter S., Guttag J., Schiff S., Schomer D., Summit Contributors: Besio W., Advances in the Application of Technology to Epilespy, The CIMIT/NIO Epilespy Innovation Summit, Elsevier, 16 3-46, 2009.
  • Besio W., Koka K., Cole A., Feasibility of Non-invasive Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation for Modulating Pilocarpine-induced Status Epilepticus Seizures in Rats, Epilepsia, 48(12): 2273-79, 2007.

Conference Proceedings on TFS

  • Santana-Gómez CE, Alcántara-González D, Luna-Munguia H, Bañuelos-Cabrera I, Magdaleno-Madrigal V, Tamayo M, Rocha LL, and Besio WG, Transcranial Focal Electrical Stimulation Reduces Seizure Activity and Hippocampal Glutamate Release During Status Epilepticus, IEEE Proceedings of the 37th International conference of the EMBS, Milan, Italy, p.p. 6586-89, 2015.
  • Luby M, Makeyev O, and Besio W, Chronic Transcranial Focal Stimulation from Tripolar Concentric Ring Electrodes does not Disrupt Memory Formation in Rats, IEEE Proceedings of the 36th International conference of the EMBS, Chicago, p.p. 6139-42, 2014.
  • Besio W. G., Luna-Munguía H., Rocha L., Neurotransmitter Modulation in Rat Hippocampus Via Extracranial Focal Electrical Stimulation (I), 33rd Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Boston, USA, 2011.
  • Besio W.G., Hadidi R., Makeyev O., Luna-Munguía H., Rocha L., Electric fields in hippocampus due to transcranial focal electrical stimulation via concentric ring electrodes, 33rd Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Boston, USA, 2011, pp. 5488-91.
  • Makeyev O., Liu X., Koka K., Kay S.M., Besio W.G., Transcranial focal stimulation via concentric ring electrodes reduced power of pentylenetetrazole-induced seizure activity in rat electroencephalogram, 33rd Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference, Boston, USA, 2011, pp. 7560-63.
  • Besio W.G., Liu X., Liu Y., Sun Y.L., Medvedev A.V., and Koka K., Algorithm for automatic detection of pentylenetetrazole-induced seizures in rats, in Proceedings of 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, Boston, USA, 2011, pp. 8283-86.