Connectionists: Neuromodulation by Digital and Analogue Drugs in Consciousness Research

[Axel Hutt]

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Call for Contributions to Frontiers Research Topic on 

“Neuromodulation by Digital and Analogue Drugs in Consciousness Research”.
(https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/29684/neuromodulation-by-digital-and-analogue-drugs-in-consciousness-research)

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Frontiers Research Topics (RT) are a specific kind of Open Access article 
collection with the option to choose the journal of publication among a set of 
pre-selected journals. In our RT, you may choose between 
Frontiers in Psychology 
(https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/sections/consciousness-research), 
Frontiers in Medicine 
(https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/sections/intensive-care-medicine-and-anesthesiology), 
or Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
(https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/systems-neuroscience) 

Guest Editors are Anthony Hudetz (U Michigan), Darren Hight (Inselspital Bern)
and Axel Hutt (INRIA Nancy Grand Est) 

Description:
Neuromodulation attracts increasing attention in today’s pre-clinical 
and clinical practice. It includes diverse medical procedures such as 
neurostimulation, general anesthesia, or drug treatments for mental 
disorders. These procedures are known to affect and even control the 
patient’s state of consciousness. Stimulations generated externally by 
electronic devices, such as transcranial and intracranial electric 
stimulations, are known as Digital Drugs. Conversely, pharmacological 
and thus non-digital drugs are important elements in medical treatment 
of, e.g. mental disorders, and can be termed Analogue Drugs. Interestingly, 
in certain cases, their neural actions resemble Digital Drug actions, 
although their origin and neurophysiological action is different. By virtue 
of both their similarity and difference of Analogue (pharmacological) Drugs 
and Digital Drugs. Well-known pairs of Digital and Analogue Drugs are visual 
flicker and psychedelic drugs (which both induce hallucinations) and isochronic 
auditory beats and anesthetics (with both inducing sedation). 

The RT is the follow-up issue of a previous RT on “General Anaesthesia: 
>From theory to experiments” 
(https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/2345/general-anesthesia-from-theory-to-experiments).

Submission deadline is March 24.

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Axel Hutt
Directeur de Recherche
Equipe MIMESIS
INRIA Nancy Grand Est 
Bâtiment IHU
1, Place de l'Hopital
67000 Strasbourg, France
https://mimesis.inria.fr/speaker/axel-hutt/