Sentences with phrase «brain stimulation device»

A directional deep brain stimulation device for the treatment of epilepsy and other brain disorders.

At UCSF Rao has pioneered the use of an implanted brain stimulation device that can quickly halt seizures by precisely stimulating a patient's brain as a seizure begins.

To answer that question, the researchers looked at data for 611 Veterans with Parkinson's disease who had a deep brain stimulation device implanted.

Caputron, which launched in 2014, also sells a range of medical - grade consumer brain stimulation devices.

Not exact matches

It still might sound a little sci - fi, but scientists and entrepreneurs are already experimenting with wearable devices that use electrical stimulation to make your brain work better in a host of intriguing ways.

A lot of loud noise, a lot of flashy objects all the time — constant sensory stimulation, not to mention the fact that many kids don't have a very good diet, that they don't get enough sleep and that they're assaulted on all sides by electronic devices that are really quite hard on their brains, whether we realize it or not.

«These findings may lead to new stimulation devices that treat deficits in memory and cognition,» says Jamie Van Gompel, M.D., a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon specializing in brain stimulation and an author in the study.

With further study, this regulatory network could be a more effective target for epilepsy therapies, including implantable stimulation devices that would help quiet a localized seizure before it spreads throughout the brain.

Some people who have had a device implanted have lost weight as a side effect, possibly because stimulation is mimicking the normal messages from our gut to our brain that signal when we are full.

Devices implanted in the brain as neural prosthesis for therapeutic brain stimulation technologies and interfaces for sensory and motor devices, such as artificial limbs, are an important goal for improving quality of life for patients.

The guidelines provide parameters regarding when clinicians should consider the possibility of ventriculitis (inflammation of the ventricles in the brain) or meningitis (inflammation of the lining of the brain or spinal cord) in patients who have cerebrospinal fluid shunts and drains (devices placed in the brain to relieve pressure due to fluid buildup), intrathecal drug pumps (for administration of pain medicine or other drugs into the spinal canal), deep brain stimulation hardware (medical devices that provide electrostimulation in the brain to treat Parkinson's disease or other neurological symptoms) or who have undergone neurosurgery or suffered from head trauma.

The device uses electrical stimulation to block the pain signals from reaching the brain.

Implanted devices send targeted electrical stimulation to the nervous system to interfere with abnormal brain activity, and it is commonly assumed that neurons are the only important brain cells that need to be stimulated by these devices.

We are also dedicated not only to enabling control over computers or robotic assistive devices, but — for people with spinal cord injury or stroke — working toward the goal of reconnecting brain to limb, allowing the powerful intracortical signals to activate fully implanted functional electrical stimulation devices, and re-enabling intuitive movement of one's own arm and hand.»

Spectrum Health is the first health system in Michigan and among the first in the nation to successfully implant a recently FDA - approved device that uses electric stimulation of the brain to treat adult epilepsy patients whose seizures have not responded to medication.

To give these patients another in - home option, Johns Hopkins graduate students have invented a headband - shaped device to deliver noninvasive brain stimulation to help tamp down the symptoms.

Across a range of disorders, deep - brain stimulation works much the same way: A pacemaker - like device in the chest transmits a signal to the implanted electrode via wires that run underneath the scalp.

Although it is known that the electric stimulation blocks nerve activity between the brain and the stomach, the specific mechanisms for weight loss due to use of the device are unknown.

When they received about 300 microamps, they walked about 15 per cent faster, without feeling any tingling from the device (Brain Stimulation, doi.org/cmhh).

Itâ $ ™ s an example of the kinds of insights that can be obtained from implantable electrical stimulation devices, which can record signals from seizures inside the brain over long periods of time (more than a year).