The road towards personalized medicine: Increasing the effects of brain stimulation using individual characteristics

Non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) have shown high treatment potential for a broad variety of neuropsychiatric disorders. However, the application of ‘standard’ protocols results in high inter-individual differences in the responses and reduce the overall efficacy. In this symposium, individual characteristics that are linked to the...