Sentences with phrase «as deep brain»

Already, researchers have developed devices such as deep brain stimulators for treating Parkinson's disease, cochlear implants for restoring minimal hearing in profoundly deaf people, and a computer interface called BrainGate that allows fully paralyzed individuals to accomplish simple tasks via a robotic arm.

In 2005, just as the deep brain stimulation patient was making his first forays into awareness, the fate of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who had been in a vegetative state since 1990, sparked an ideological war.

So far, DARPA has released two calls for grant applications, with at least one more likely: The first, called SUBNETS (Systems - Based Neurotechnology for Emerging Therapies), asks researchers to develop novel, wireless devices, such as deep brain stimulators, that can cure neurological disorders such as posttraumatic stress (PTS), major depression, and chronic pain.

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.

Researchers grapple with ethical questions as deep brain stimulation implants like this one — approved for Parkinson's disease — are applied to other disorders.

For more severe cases, some patients turn to invasive, and therefore riskier, approaches such as deep brain stimulation and vagal nerve stimulation.

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.

«Until now, the only way to achieve this was a risky surgical procedure known as deep brain stimulation, in which electrodes are implanted directly inside the thalamus,» he said.

Although more work is needed to examine whether those findings are relevant for people, «they suggest that clinical trials testing treatments that increase brain activity, such as deep brain stimulation, should be monitored carefully in people with neurodegenerative diseases,» said Dr. Duff.

Not exact matches

Without a central hub for academics to branch out on their work in Canada, deep learning's southbound pioneers served as pied pipers, bringing their students with them, creating a brain drain.

But cognitive research suggests something deeper — that the human brain has evolved in such a way that it's more likely to see visuals as «true» and words as, literally, «debatable.»

Utilizing gigantic data pools, deep learning can identify and interpret complex patterns much in the same way as the human brain.

Deep inside of your head your brain sees a person looking directly at you as a possible threat or love interest — both get your attention.

But as The Brain began to look deeper at what companies it had acquired and others it was connected to — as well as the people involved in them — it found information that was buried, probably intentionally.

Before joining Baidu, Andrew built his reputation in the AI industry as the man behind Google Brain, Google's deep learning arm.

There's the Google Brain team, the deep learning experts who moved into Google's sprawling research team in 2012; Project Insight, which built detailed indoor maps, moved to Maps that same year; and Life Sciences spun out as its own Alphabet company this summer, re-dubbing itself Verily.

To believe as you do requires that you turn off your brain, learn and accept nothing of reality, and ignore the overwhelming geologic and deep time evidence.

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

As a baby's brain matures, they begin to cycle between deep and light sleep.

Sometimes parents stay up much of the time to pick our brains, and other times they use doula time for deep sleep, as they trust that we have it covered and that our magical elves will help them get things done at night to make their days more peaceful as well.

I don't blame him for not spending HOURS researching; our brains just don't work the same way and his interest isn't quite as deep as mine.

Deep brain stimulation has been heralded as a possible treatment for ills from obesity to obsessive - compulsive disorder to traumatic brain injury.

As another crucial part of the new study on Internet addiction, the research team zeroed in on tissue deep in the brain called white matter, which links together its various regions.

Then, Feng recognized a novel opportunity to directly measure whether tDCS generates EFs in deep brain areas among patients with movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease, who are often treated by implanting DBS electrodes.

BRAIN CANDY A new database offers a deep look at living human nerve cells, revealing elaborate branching structures and myriad shapes, such as in this neuron called a pyramidal cell (cell image, left and 3 - D computer reconstruction, right).

The basal ganglia are structures deep within the brain, thought to be responsible for control of movements and responses to rewards as well as cognitive functions.

«As the brain ages, it can not precisely coordinate these two deep - sleep brain waves,» Walker added.

The Zombie Power of Botox — Botox uncovers deep evolutionary processes in the brain, paralyzing our emotions just as it paralyzes our faces.

With TMS, says Ed Boyden, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Media Lab and McGovern Institute for Brain Research in Cambridge, «You can always stimulate deep neurons but you stimulate superficial neurons as well.»

Donato's prize - winning essay, «Assembling the brain from deep within,» highlights how his results have important implications in degenerative brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.

For instance, zapping the temporal lobe using deep - brain stimulation can improve spatial memory, and using a powerful magnet to alter activity in the right temporoparietal junction can make our moral compass go haywire, causing behaviors we think of as immoral to become permissible.

Symptoms such as movement restrictions, muscle rigidity, or tremor can be alleviated using the neurosurgical procedure which places small electrodes into deep structures of the brain.

The best microscopes currently available can detect light from 3 to 4 millimetres into the brain, enough to see light signals coming from the cortex of a small animal, but not enough to see deep - seated structures such as the hippocampus.

If areas of the brain start to disconnect or become fragmented and balkanized, as occurs in deep sleep or in anesthesia, consciousness fades and might cease altogether.

«We found that if you have a higher functioning dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the imbalance in these deeper brain structures is not expressed as changes in mood or anxiety,» Hariri said.

Severe CTE was defined as tau clusters and several other degenerative abnormalities affecting not only the cortex, but deeper brain structures including the hippocampus, the amygdala, and the brain stem.

At the very least, we can expect our talent to render more astounding discoveries about our past — once as invisible and mute as a long - buried fossil in some deep cleft of rock but now exhumed and decoded by that unique brain that sets our species apart.

To do those things, the program relies on «deep neural networks» — computer programs that mimic the connections of neurons in the brain and have the capacity to learn, as the team reports online today in Nature.

«It's like we're opening and shutting a window for a few hours, and that could be perceived as cruel,» says Joseph Fins, at Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, who was a member of the first team to trial deep brain stimulation in a minimally conscious person.

«Deep brain stimulation improves non motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease as well as motor symptoms.»

Stimulating neurons deep within the brain can help treat conditions such as Parkinson's disease and obsessivecompulsive disorder, but right now patients must undergo invasive electrode implants.

Attention, Goleman suggests, is like a muscle, and learning to strengthen it through simple exercises, such as 10 minutes of deep breathing every morning, can help the brain gain focus.

Described in the January 7th issue of Neuron, the technique uses «deep,» highly sensitive whole - genome sequencing of single neurons and a new technology that identifies inserted bits of DNA caused by retrotransposons, one of several kinds of so - called somatic mutations that can arise as the brain develops.

Magnetic resonance imaging scans pinpointed the right insular area as the culprit, a region deep inside the brain linked with the part of the nervous system that sets off stress - related responses.

The patients agreed to undergo several minutes of deep brain stimulation to these regions during surgery as the electrode was being implanted.

These two, almond - shaped clumps of nerve cells deep in the brain are sometimes referred to as the emotional thermostat for their role in the processing of emotions, particularly fear.

Children progressively lose muscle control as the tumor rapidly attacks the pons, a region deep inside the brain that connects the brain to the spinal cord, and is difficult to reach and surgically remove.

Dr. Gradinaru's research interests focus on developing tools and methods for neuroscience (optogenetic actuators and sensors; tissue clearing and imaging) as well as on investigating the mechanisms underlying deep brain stimulation (DBS) and on the long - term effects of DBS on neuronal health, function, and ultimately behavior.

«But perhaps the most exciting implication is that our tools, when paired with appropriate activity modulator genes, could enable non-invasive deep brain modulation for the treatment of neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease.»