Sentences with phrase «brain stimulation technique»

Researchers used a brain stimulation technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation to reduce the brain's response to drug cues in chronic drug users.

Next, Casasanto and Brookshire turned to depression treatments involving continuous transcranial direct - current stimulation (tDCS), a brain stimulation technique that involves running a weak electric current between two electrodes on someone's scalp.

In order to modulate the functioning of fronto - striatal circuits, the researchers from the lab of Robert Zatorre used a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which uses magnetic pulses to either stimulate or inhibit selected parts of the brain.

«Non-invasive brain stimulation technique could transform learning.»

Cases of savant syndrome have inspired an electrical brain stimulation technique for boosting creative insight

Simon Davis and colleagues used a brain stimulation technique known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to modulate brain activity of healthy older adults while they performed a memory task.

Until recently the only treatments available for conditions affecting the brain were drugs or surgery — a «hammer over the head approach», according to William Tyler, a biomedical engineer at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in Roanoke and a pioneer of the new brain stimulation techniques.

Non-invasive brain stimulation techniques aimed at mental and neurological conditions include transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for depression, and transcranial direct current (electrical) stimulation (tDCS), shown to improve memory.

Dr. Deisseroth is the D.H. Chen Professor in the Bioengineering and Psychiatry Departments at Stanford University, and is a practicing inpatient and outpatient psychiatrist, employing medications and interventional brain stimulation techniques (VNS, TMS, and others) to treat patients with psychiatric disease.

Improving grid cell activity with new drugs or brain stimulation techniques might help, he says.

In his 1969 book Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society, Delgado extolled the promise of brain stimulation techniques for curbing violent aggression and other maladaptive traits.

The researchers used non-invasive brain stimulation techniques to disrupt activation in the so called «temporo - parietal junction,» a region at the side towards the back of the brain.

«We know that cognitive impairment can be devastating for people with schizophrenia and there is a push to look at solutions, including medication options, brain training and brain stimulation techniques,» said lead author Gagan Fervaha, a researcher in the Complex Mental Illness program at CAMH and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto.

What's more, Rose writes, «the results have exciting implications if noninvasive brain stimulation techniques can be used to reactivate and potentially strengthen latent memories» — in other words, recovering information that had been forever lost.

Not exact matches

A noninvasive technique for brain stimulation, tDCS is applied using two small electrodes placed on the scalp, delivering short bursts of extremely low - intensity electrical currents.

Researchers from Heidelberg University have developed a computer vision technique to analyse the changes in motor skills that result from targeted stimulation of healthy areas of the brain.

Called repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), the noninvasive technique uses electromagnets to create localized electrical currents in the brain.

Future brain - stimulation techniques could target this bilateral effect in effort to promote communication between the hemispheres and, hopefully, engender healthy cognition throughout the lifespan.

He has suggested that a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which uses magnetic fields to disrupt neuronal firing, can knock out a normal person's conceptual brain machinery, temporarily rendering him savantlike.

Known as deep brain stimulation (DBS), the technique gives neurosurgeons the almost magical ability to reach into the brain and turn off troublesome areas at will.

The technique used is called deep brain stimulation, and is already used to treat the tremors and movement problems of some people with severe Parkinson's disease.

The reason for using this technique (called continuous theta - burst stimulation) in general is that it makes it possible to determine which brain areas perform which functions.

Major technical challenges must be overcome before the approach can be tested in humans, but the technique could eventually provide a wireless, nonsurgical alternative to traditional deep brain stimulation surgery, researchers say.

For example, in transcranial magnetic stimulation, a magnetic field is passed over the scalp above this part of the brain; a similar study could explore whether this technique could be made more effective.

The military is also testing monitoring techniques for another reason: to use brain stimulation to increase a fighter's alertness and attention.

To signal which direction to move, the researchers generated a phosphene through transcranial magnetic stimulation, a well - known technique that uses a magnetic coil placed near the skull to directly and noninvasively stimulate a specific area of the brain.

The study examined the effect of a technique called transcranial direct - current stimulation (tDCS), a form of non-invasive brain stimulation, on the neuromuscular, physiological and perceptual responses to exhaustive leg exercise.

But when Sirigu and colleagues used transcranial magnetic stimulation — a technique that employs magnetic fields to excite neurons in the brain — to stimulate specific fragments of the motor cortex, they found that the «hand areas» in the motor cortex of both men had reassumed their original «wiring.»

These findings open the door for researchers to potentially explore therapies that could target this area of the brain and disrupt its role in addiction, potentially with new drugs or other techniques such as deep brain stimulation or transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Another Lasker will go to Alim Louis Benabid of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, and Mahlon DeLong, the researchers behind deep - brain stimulation, a surgical technique to alleviate certain symptoms of Parkinson's disease.

The most widely known invasive technique, deep brain stimulation (DBS), requires brain surgery to insert an electrode and is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and essential tremor.

Techniques that directly activate the posterior cingulate cortex like brain stimulation or game play that promotes distraction, particularly within situations that don't allow a routine to form, can lead to more creativity.

Since medical school, Schiff had believed that a technique called deep brain stimulation might help patients who have viable, networked cortical tissue but inconsistent awareness.

The technique, called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, or TMS — apparently harmless and virtually painless — permits him to temporarily alter the activity of a living human brain.

Deep - brain stimulation has emerged as a technique to treat neurologic and neuropsychiatric disorders, including Parkinson's disease, dystonia, depression, and obsessive — compulsive disorder.2 - 5 The nature of the stimulation - induced modification of the neural circuit that results in improvement in patients with these disorders is not completely understood.

One popular set of techniques, called transcranial electrical stimulation (TES), delivers electrical current via electrodes stuck to the scalp, typically above the target brain area.

My main goals are: a) to unravel the functional and anatomical connectivity of the primate prefrontal cortex circuitry within the framework of complex cognitive tasks, b) to generate tools and techniques that allow manipulating prefrontal cortex function and therefore generate symptoms of mental disorders in behaving non-human primates, and c) to produce interventions (e.g., deep brain stimulation or local / systemic drug delivery) that allow rescuing the generated disease phenotypes.

A recent interest is the study of neuromodulation techniques: transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and deep brain stimulation (DBS).

Another technique dubbed magnetoencephalography (MEG) maps magnetic fields in the brain produced by electrical signals; a similar approach, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), selectively stimulates parts of the brain and is already being used to treat severe depression, migraine headaches and other conditions.

The technique used in the study — optical stimulation of brain cells, or «optogenetics» — involves the insertion of a gene into parts of a brain to make them sensitive to blue light and then stimulating them with the light.

While it's far too early to know whether deep brain stimulation helps those with early Alzheimer's, the initial findings suggest the technique is worth further study, said lead researcher Dr. Andres Lozano.

ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY Also known as ECT, this highly controversial technique uses low voltage electrical stimulation of the brain to treat some forms of major depression, acute mania, and some forms of schizophrenia.

EMDR treatment is based on the neuroscience of the brain and uses the technique of alternating bilateral stimulation to process through memory networks and release the emotional charge associated with distressing thoughts, memories and blocks.