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Non-Invasive Temporal Interference Electrical Stimulation Modulates Neurotransmitter Release and Improves Aberrant Neural Oscillations in Alzheimer's Disease.

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Authors: Linyan Wu1,2,3, Sinan Li2, Liang Huang2, Long Li2, Ping Zhou1, Zhiyuan Lu1, Tian Liu2,3, Jue Wang2,3
  1. School of Rehabilitation Sciences and Engineering University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Qingdao China
  2. The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Institute of Health and Rehabilitation Science, School of Life Science and Technology Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an Shaanxi P. R. China
  3. The Key Laboratory of Neuro‐Informatics & Rehabilitation Engineering of Ministry of Civil Affairs Xi'an Shaanxi P. R. China
Journal: CNS neuroscience & therapeutics, volume 32, issue 5, article e70848
Dates: received 19 April 2025; accepted 12 March 2026; published online 5 May 2026; in print May 2026
Type: Research article · Language: English
License: CC BY
Identifiers: DOI 10.1002/cns.70848 · PMID 42084363 · PMCID PMC13141679 · OpenAlex W7160278853
Open access: gold, a free copy (OpenAlex)
Status: code on request
Categories: human (organism), mouse (organism), Alzheimer's / dementia (population), cellular / molecular (subfield)
Methods: Spectral & time-frequency, Statistics, Connectivity
Keywords: Alzheimer, neuronal oscillatory rhythms, neurotransmitter expression, temporal interference
MeSH: Alzheimer Disease*, Brain*, Electric Stimulation*, Neurotransmitter Agents*, Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor, Animals, Disease Models, Animal, Humans, Mice, Mice, Transgenic, Presenilin-1 (* major topic)
Topic: Neurological disorders and treatments (Neurology, Medicine), according to OpenAlex
Funding: Shaanxi Province Key Research and Development Program Project (2025SF‐YBXM‐254); National Natural Science Foundation of China (82102179); Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2024QF287, ZR2024YQ077); Taishan Scholar Foundation of Shandong Province (tsqn202211226, tstp20221144); Clinical Research Capacity Improvement Special Project of University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (K2025LC0102); Scientific Research Innovation Capability Support Project for Young Faculty (SRICSPYF‐BS2025076)
Citations: cited by 1 paper (Europe PMC); 48 references in the paper

Abstract

Background: Modulating brain oscillations has significant therapeutic promise. Traditional non‐invasive neuromodulation techniques can alleviate clinical signs of Alzheimer's disease (AD) by restoring normal neural oscillatory activity in certain brain regions. As a novel non‐invasive brain modulation technique, temporal interference (TI) has been demonstrated to precisely control hippocampus neural oscillations while minimizing its impact on cortical neural activity, but its exact mechanism of action is still unclear.

Method: We simulated and experimentally measured the intracranial electric field under TI to determine the precision of TI intervention. Subsequently, TI stimulation was applied to the APP/PS1 transgenic AD mouse model, and the impact of TI stimulation on the stimulated brain region was compared from the perspectives of behavior, electrophysiology, and cell biology.

Results: This work showed that in the APP/PS1 Alzheimer's disease mice model, TI stimulation significantly increased GABA levels and decreased NMDA receptor activation at the targeted region. Following neurotransmitter regulation, the rhythm of the gamma oscillations they associate also changed. This, in turn, influenced other memory‐related neural oscillation frequencies and brain regions through cross‐frequency coupling and brain connectivity, ultimately improving the behavioral performance of AD model mice.

Conclusions: The results of our work demonstrated how TI stimulation alters brain oscillations to enhance memory in mice with Alzheimer's disease, offering a possible theoretical foundation for TI's clinical application.

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This paper

Wu, L., Li, S., Huang, L., Li, L., Zhou, P., Lu, Z., Liu, T., & Wang, J. (2026). Non-Invasive Temporal Interference Electrical Stimulation Modulates Neurotransmitter Release and Improves Aberrant Neural Oscillations in Alzheimer's Disease. CNS neuroscience & therapeutics, 32(5), e70848. https://doi.org/10.1002/cns.70848

BibTeX

@article{wu2026non,
author = {Wu, Linyan and Li, Sinan and Huang, Liang and Li, Long and Zhou, Ping and Lu, Zhiyuan and Liu, Tian and Wang, Jue},
title = {{Non-Invasive Temporal Interference Electrical Stimulation Modulates Neurotransmitter Release and Improves Aberrant Neural Oscillations in Alzheimer's Disease}},
journal = {CNS neuroscience \& therapeutics},
year = {2026},
month = may,
volume = {32},
number = {5},
pages = {e70848},
publisher = {Wiley},
issn = {1755-5930},
doi = {10.1002/cns.70848},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/cns.70848},
pmid = {42084363},
pmcid = {PMC13141679}
}

RIS

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T2 - CNS neuroscience & therapeutics
J2 - CNS Neurosci Ther
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/05/01
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PB - Wiley
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