Alternating Currents in Neuromodulation: From Principles to Protocols

Elevate your neuromodulation skills. Learn to apply Professor Carrick’s protocols to optimize brain activity, mood, motor output, and autonomic function.

Functional Neurology

Matthew Antonucci

Ted Carrick

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Description

If you’ve used electrical nerve stimulation but seen your results plateau or vary from patient to patient, this advanced 2-day course will reset your understanding and application of neuromodulation. Alternating Current Neuromodulation: From Principles to Protocols takes you back to the foundations—exploring waveform characteristics, stimulation parameters, and nerve targeting—and reveals how they directly influence brain activity and neuroplasticity. More importantly, you’ll learn how to apply Professor Carrick’s proven protocols with precision to enhance cognitive performance, mood regulation, motor output, and autonomic function. Designed exclusively for doctors trained in Functional Neurology, this is not a beginner’s overview, but a deep reboot to elevate your clinical outcomes and restore your confidence in neuromodulation as a transformative therapeutic tool.

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What you’ll learn:

Explain the neurophysiological principles underlying alternating current neuromodulation.
Differentiate waveform characteristics and stimulation parameters to optimize clinical outcomes.
Identify nerve targeting strategies that influence brain activity and neuroplasticity.
Apply Professor Carrick’s protocols to improve cognitive, motor, mood, and autonomic function.
Integrate neuromodulation techniques into functional neurology practice with precision and confidence.

FRC is amazing as usual. Matt is awesome as well! Great course and needed if you want to have great outcomes

- Ryan Weaver D.C.

Wow - two very intense days of mostly new material. Both Ted and Matt provided excellent presentations on the background and use of AC neuromodulation. Still trying to get to grips with the operation of the CereMod equipment, but just takes practice. This is a new modality for me and looks as though it has many applications for my patients.

- Rosie Kitchiner D.C.

I've been using neuromodulation for my whole chiropractic career, but this weekend opened my eyes. I now feel more confident in my ability to be specific in application and how to target brain areas in ways I never considered before. Great course!

- Denise Primavera D.C.

Components

Clinical Definition and Scope of Cognitive Impairment
- Introduces cognitive impairment, affected cognitive domains, and common neurological causes including stroke, traumatic brain injury, and toxic exposure.
Epidemiology and Societal Burden of Cognitive Dysfunction
- Reviews global prevalence data and the personal, familial, and economic burden that drives demand for novel neuromodulatory therapies.
Conventional Therapies and Their Clinical Limitations
- Surveys cognitive rehabilitation, pharmacologic treatment, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and exercise, highlighting inconsistent global functional outcomes.
Rationale for Noninvasive Electro-Neuromodulation
- Introduces rTMS, tDCS, and peripheral nerve stimulation as emerging electrical approaches to enhance neuroplasticity after brain injury.
Median Nerve Electrical Stimulation (MNS): Technique and Clinical Use
- Details median nerve anatomy, stimulation parameters, and the rationale for MNS as a low-cost, noninvasive neuromodulation strategy.
Clinical Evidence, Outcomes, and Safety of MNS
- Reviews retrospective cohort findings using MMSE, ADL, and P300 event-related potentials demonstrating cognitive, functional, and neurophysiological improvement without adverse effects.
Wearable and Home-Based Median Nerve Stimulation
- Examines rhythmic, wrist-worn MNS devices and their effectiveness in reducing tic severity and frequency in Tourette syndrome and chronic tic disorder.
Electro-Neuromodulation of Motor Control and Tic Suppression
- Explores how rhythmic peripheral nerve stimulation modulates cortical–subcortical motor circuits to suppress involuntary movements.
Central Modulation of Reflexes by Electrical Stimulation
- Demonstrates how electro-neuromodulation influences higher-order control of basic reflexes across species, linking attention and neural state to reflex output.
Pupillary Light Reflex (PLR) and Autonomic Assessment
- Explores sympathetic and parasympathetic pathways of the PLR and their modulation through central and peripheral electrical stimulation.
Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) in Ischemic Stroke
- Reviews experimental evidence showing TENS reduces infarct volume, oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, and neurological deficit after cerebral ischemia.
Electro-Neuromodulation of Neuroinflammation and Cell Death Pathways
- Examines how electrical stimulation regulates oxidative stress, pyroptosis, inflammasome activity, and apoptotic signaling in injured neural tissue.
Mitochondrial Regulation and Mitophagy in Electrical Stimulation
- Details how electro-neuromodulation enhances mitochondrial trafficking, calcium handling, mitophagy, and metabolic resilience.
Focal vs Global Electrical Stimulation Strategies
- Compares localized versus global stimulation approaches, highlighting axonal-targeted neuromodulation and differential neuroprotective effects.

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