Sentences with phrase «brain stimulation improves»

January 27, 2015 Low - frequency deep brain stimulation improves difficult - to - treat Parkinson's symptoms Parkinson's disease patients treated with low - frequency deep brain stimulation show significant improvements in swallowing dysfunction and freezing of gait over typical high - frequency treatment.

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

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Classes focus on activities developed to increase a baby's brain growth and development, improve sensory stimulation, help children feel comfortable in social situations, and encourage growth and bonding between parent and child.

After years of helping children with behavioral and social challenges, the experts at Brain Balance Achievement Centers have developed a cutting - edge (and drug - free) program combining sensory motor stimulation, academic exercises, and nutrition to correct brain imbalance and improve achieveBrain Balance Achievement Centers have developed a cutting - edge (and drug - free) program combining sensory motor stimulation, academic exercises, and nutrition to correct brain imbalance and improve achievebrain imbalance and improve achievement.

While most young children can only sit for a few minutes at a time, reading provides meaningful stimulation that can exercise the brain, improve concentration, and develop the imagination.

I would like to sum up my post by saying that we should not ignore the importance of nutrition and stimulation for boosting a child's brain development and improving IQ.

Tickling the brain with low - intensity electrical stimulation in a specific area can improve verbal short - term memory.

«Tickling the brain with electrical stimulation improves memory.»

Brain stimulation or «make yourself smarter» technologies, while not new, have been shown to improve working memory and sharpen «physical movement, visual perception, memory and reaction time,» he said.

In fact, Fields says, this bizarre electrical behavior may underlie the positive effects of deep - brain stimulation, which, though not well understood, has been shown to improve the symptoms of Parkinson's disease and other neurological disorders.

Work is underway to make the brain implant wireless, and the investigators are improving decoding and stimulation patterns needed to make movements more precise.

«Deep brain stimulation may improve cognition in dementia, other neurodegenerative diseases.»

A subsequent study in 2003 showed such stimulation could improve a cognitive ability psychologists call motor sequence learning — the process of training the brain in the precisely sequenced steps required to interact with the world via means such as listening or executing a movement.

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.

A small but intriguing 2014 study is the first to suggest that memory loss from Alzheimer's may be reversed through a 36 - point therapeutic program that includes dietary changes, brain stimulation, exercise, improved sleep and other methods that affect brain chemistry.

A University of Illinois at Chicago researcher will test whether brain stimulation combined with gait training can improve patients» ability to walk after a stroke, under a $ 1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

He led a 2007 study in which a minimally conscious patient (a person who shows occasional intention, attention, awareness, and responsiveness) improved somewhat with deep brain stimulation of the thalamus..

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.

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.

While deep brain stimulation may improve function compared with those who do not receive it, little evidence exists on whether the treatment has any benefits to life expectancy.

When abnormalities are detected, a machine therapy called transcranial magnetic stimulation (tms) can send into the brain magnetic pulses powerful enough to shift and rewire those connections so their function is improved.

If doctors knew how the brain structure of a patient will change and reorganize during treatment, they could determine the ideal times for phases of stimulation and rest, thus improving treatment efficiency.

While the results suggest that deep brain stimulation could improve survival rates for patients with Parkinson's disease, the researchers note a few limitations to the study.

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has become a well - recognized non-pharmacologic treatment that improves motor symptoms of patients with early and advanced Parkinson's disease.

It's possible,» he adds, «that the brain would get used to the stimulation — just as it adjusts to medications — and also become less responsive over time, but we are hopeful that continued stimulation might improve symptoms.»

«External brain stimulation temporarily improves motor symptoms in people with Parkinson's.»

In addition, their study with a small group of 20 patients with PD demonstrated that stimulation of the cortex of the brain using external electrodes corrected some of the distortion and temporarily improved some patients» motor symptoms.

The study, published in PLOS Computational Biology, provides a patient specific approach to tuning parameters that may dramatically improve efficacy of deep brain stimulation.

Additional funding would support the exploration of which types of memory are best treated by current drugs or brain stimulation and how these can be improved.

Research by the University of Kent into the effects of brain stimulation on athletes» performance has demonstrated that it is an effective way to improve endurance.

Bilateral extracephalic transcranial direct current stimulation improves endurance performance in healthy individuals (Dr Luca Angius, Dr Lex Mauger, Dr James Hopker, and Professor Samule Marcora, University of Kent, with Professor Alvaro Pascual - Leone, Berenson - Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Dr Emiliano Santarnecch, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA) is published in the journal Brain Sstimulation improves endurance performance in healthy individuals (Dr Luca Angius, Dr Lex Mauger, Dr James Hopker, and Professor Samule Marcora, University of Kent, with Professor Alvaro Pascual - Leone, Berenson - Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Dr Emiliano Santarnecch, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA) is published in the journal Brain SStimulation, Division of Cognitive Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Dr Emiliano Santarnecch, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA) is published in the journal Brain StimulationStimulation.

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

Deep brain stimulation might alter the brain circuits that drive anorexia nervosa symptoms and help improve patients» mental and physical health, according to a small study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

This study therefore provides important methodological guidance for the application of tDCS and provides further evidence that brain stimulation can improve endurance exercise performance, although the authors warn against the uncontrolled use of tDCS.

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This method therefore provides a patient specific approach to tuning parameters that may dramatically improve efficacy of deep brain stimulation.

«Deep brain stimulation for patients with chronic anorexia is safe and might improve symptoms.»

«Patient - specific approach may improve deep brain stimulation used to treat Parkinson's.»

In a new study, published online Dec. 15 in the journal Current Biology, the researchers show for the first time that brain stimulation of specific neurons at a specific frequency can improve timing in mice that are missing dopamine.

«For the first time we are able to deliver brain stimulation to improve a cognitive behavior.

The findings imply that, at least in theory, it might be possible to use brain stimulation to improve cognitive problems caused by PD, and possibly other cognitive disorders, too.

This ongoing study, the PACt - MD study, combines brain training exercises and brain stimulation, using a mild electrical current to stimulate brain cells and improve learning and memory.

The results suggest that, theoretically, delivering targeted, selective, and specific brain stimulation might improve some of the cognitive aspects of losing dopamine in Parkinson's disease.»

«Not only are there applications for healthy people to better realize their potential, but EEG - neurofeedback work has been extended to pathology, as in the case of children with attentional disabilities and [transcranial magnetic stimulation] for depression,» notes psychologist John Gruzelier of Goldsmiths College in London, who has been working on training musicians to control their own brain waves, thereby improving performance.

«These results suggest that brain networks might be used to help us better understand why brain stimulation works and to improve therapy by identifying the best place to stimulate the brain for each individual patient and given disease,» says senior author Alvaro Pascual - Leone, MD, PhD, the Director of the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at BIDMC and Professor of Neurology atbrain networks might be used to help us better understand why brain stimulation works and to improve therapy by identifying the best place to stimulate the brain for each individual patient and given disease,» says senior author Alvaro Pascual - Leone, MD, PhD, the Director of the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at BIDMC and Professor of Neurology atbrain stimulation works and to improve therapy by identifying the best place to stimulate the brain for each individual patient and given disease,» says senior author Alvaro Pascual - Leone, MD, PhD, the Director of the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at BIDMC and Professor of Neurolstimulation works and to improve therapy by identifying the best place to stimulate the brain for each individual patient and given disease,» says senior author Alvaro Pascual - Leone, MD, PhD, the Director of the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at BIDMC and Professor of Neurology atbrain for each individual patient and given disease,» says senior author Alvaro Pascual - Leone, MD, PhD, the Director of the Berenson - Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at BIDMC and Professor of Neurology atBrain Stimulation at BIDMC and Professor of NeurolStimulation at BIDMC and Professor of Neurology at HMS.

Animal studies have indicated that electrical stimulation of the brain can improve recovery from stroke.

Shepherd Center is one of 12 U.S. centers participating in a clinical trial that is evaluating whether coupling navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the brain with standard occupational therapy can measurably improve hand and arm function following a stroke.

«Even among patients with advanced Parkinson's disease and freezing of gait, it is apparently possible to improve brain function via non-invasive brain stimulation, at least in the short - term, and this has positive, functional consequences.»

Stimulation using microwires presents a novel opportunity to improve selective and natural activation of neuronal circuits in the human brain.

* Deep brain stimulation can reduce seizure frequency and improve quality of life for patients with drug - resistant epilepsy.