Neuronal cultures are a good model for studying emerging brain stimulation techniques via their effect on single neurons or a population of neurons. Presented here are different methods for stimulation of patterned neuronal cultures by an electric field produced directly by bath electrodes or induced by a time-varying magnetic field.
Stern, S., Rotem, A., Burnishev, Y., Weinreb, E., Moses, E. External Excitation of Neurons Using Electric and Magnetic Fields in One- and Two-dimensional Cultures. J. Vis. Exp. (123), e54357, doi:10.3791/54357 (2017).