Figure 2.

Significant publications in the field of neural stimulation, which illustrate the place of electrically stimulating probes amongst the development of alternative techniques. The upper section includes such important designs as: the Michigan probe,^{[ 360 ]} the Utah Array,^{[ 361 ]} Polymeric probes,^{[ 362 ]} Mesh Electronics,^{[ 296 ]} and Neuropixels.^{[ 140 ]} The lower half of the timeline includes Electroconvulsive Therapy,^{[ 363 ]} Deep Brain Stimulation,^{[ 364 ]} Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation,^{[ 365 ]} Optogenetics,^{[ 366 ]} Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS),^{[ 367 ]} FEAST,^{[ 21 ]} and μMS.^{[ 33 ]}