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Eric M. Wassermann is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Medicine, with a focus on several key subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Epidemiology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

Their work concentrates on topics such as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Studies, Traumatic Brain Injury Research, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Spatial Neglect and Hemispheric Dysfunction, Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances, and Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research.

Eric M. Wassermann has contributed to multiple publications in notable venues, including:

  • Cerebral Cortex
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Michael Freedberg
  • Jordan Grafman
  • Edward D. Huey
  • Michael Tierney
  • Jack A. Reeves

Recent papers published by Eric M. Wassermann are as follows:

  • Safety and recommendations for TMS use in healthy subjects and patient populations, with updates on training, ethical and regulatory issues: Expert Guidelines (2020), Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Pain, Headache, and Comorbid Depression: INS-NANS Expert Consensus Panel Review and Recommendation (2020), Neuromodulation Technology at the Neural Interface
  • Functional and Structural Neuroimaging Correlates of Repetitive Low-Level Blast Exposure in Career Breachers (2020), Journal of Neurotrauma
  • Identifying site- and stimulation-specific TMS-evoked EEG potentials using a quantitative cosine similarity metric (2020), PLoS ONE
  • Prioritization of Drug Targets for Neurodegenerative Diseases by Integrating Genetic and Proteomic Data From Brain and Blood (2022), Biological Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Transcranial direct current stimulation: State of the art 2008

    Michael A. Nitsche;Leonardo G. Cohen;Eric M. Wassermann;Alberto Priori

  • Risk and safety of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: report and suggested guidelines from the International Workshop on the Safety of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, June 5–7, 1996

    Eric M Wassermann

  • Depression of motor cortex excitability by low-frequency transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    R. Chen;J. Classen;C. Gerloff;P. Celnik

  • Responses to rapid-rate transcranial magnetic stimulation of the human motor cortex.

    Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Josep Valls-Solé;Eric M. Wassermann;Mark Hallett

  • Safety and recommendations for TMS use in healthy subjects and patient populations, with updates on training, ethical and regulatory issues: Expert Guidelines

    Simone Rossi;Andrea Antal;Sven Bestmann;Marom Bikson

  • Daily repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) improves mood in depression.

    Mark S. George;Eric M. Wassermann;Wendol A. Williams;Ann Callahan

  • Therapeutic application of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: a review.

    Eric M Wassermann;Sarah H Lisanby

  • Safety and cognitive effect of frontal DC brain polarization in healthy individuals

    Meenakshi B Iyer;U. Mattu;J. Grafman;M. Lomarev

  • Human motor evoked responses to paired transcranial magnetic stimuli.

    Josep Valls-Solé;Alvaro Pascual-Leone;Eric M. Wassermann;Mark Hallett

  • Opposite effects of high and low frequency rTMS on regional brain activity in depressed patients

    Andrew M Speer;Timothy A Kimbrell;Eric M Wassermann;Jennifer D. Repella

  • Noninvasive mapping of muscle representations in human motor cortex.

    Eric M. Wassermann;Lisa M. McShane;Mark Hallett;Leonardo G. Cohen

  • Mood Improvement Following Daily Left Prefrontal Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Patients With Depression: A Placebo-Controlled Crossover Trial

    Mark S. George;Eric M. Wassermann;Tim A. Kimbrell;John T. Little

  • A safety screening questionnaire for transcranial magnetic stimulation

    John C Keel;Mark J Smith;Eric M Wassermann

  • Reward improves long-term retention of a motor memory through induction of offline memory gains

    Mitsunari Abe;Heidi Schambra;Eric M. Wassermann;Dave Luckenbaugh

  • Variation in the response to transcranial magnetic brain stimulation in the general population.

    Eric M Wassermann

  • Multimodal imaging of brain reorganization in motor areas of the contralesional hemisphere of well recovered patients after capsular stroke

    Christian Gerloff;Khalaf Bushara;Alexandra Sailer;Eric M. Wassermann

  • Safety of rapid-rate transcranial magnetic stimulation in normal volunteers.

    A. Pascual-Leone;C.M. Houser;K. Reese;L.I. Shotland

  • Demonstration of facilitatory I wave interaction in the human motor cortex by paired transcranial magnetic stimulation

    Ulf Ziemann;Ulf Ziemann;Frithjof Tergau;Eric M. Wassermann;Stephan Wischer

  • Physiological and modeling evidence for focal transcranial electrical brain stimulation in humans: A basis for high-definition tDCS

    Dylan Edwards;Mar Cortes;Abhishek Datta;Preet Minhas

  • Changes in mood and hormone levels after rapid-rate transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the prefrontal cortex.

    George Ms;Wassermann Em;Williams Wa;Steppel J

  • Priming stimulation enhances the depressant effect of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation.

    Meenakshi B. Iyer;Nicole Schleper;Eric M. Wassermann

Frequent Co-Authors

Jordan Grafman
Jordan Grafman Northwestern University
Mark Hallett
Mark Hallett National Institutes of Health
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Alvaro Pascual-Leone Harvard University
Mark S. George
Mark S. George Medical University of South Carolina
Leonardo G. Cohen
Leonardo G. Cohen National Institutes of Health
Ulf Ziemann
Ulf Ziemann University of Tübingen
Ali Samii
Ali Samii University of Washington
Robert M. Post
Robert M. Post George Washington University
Frank Krueger
Frank Krueger George Mason University
Benjamin D. Greenberg
Benjamin D. Greenberg Brown University

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