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«Possible benefits of brain stimulation on hand, arm movement following stroke.»
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«The complementary evidence of electrocorticography, fMRI, and brain stimulation will make it possible to study not only the effects of brain stimulation on the local neural networks that process face information, but also how they broadcast their information towards other regions in the brain.»
«Brain stimulation can improve athletic performance: Research into the effects of brain stimulation on athletes» performance has demonstrated that it is an effective way to improve endurance.»
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.
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The amount of stimulation the light has on our eyeballs translate directly to our brain, overwhelming it with signals and the demand for needed associations.
On the principle of control and direction, nature demands that, when a creature emerges with a brain too powerful for the environment to hold in meaningful stimulation and coordinated response, something new must be done.
He cites research on the plasticity of the brain's neural pathways which demonstrates that the brain has the ability to change depending on the type of stimulation it receives.
Such therapies can include vision exercises, left brain exercises, on - ice - tailored drills, cold laser therapy, gyrostim treatments, and cranial nerve stimulation.
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.
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.
In a recent experiment on babies in a hospital nursery, researchers recorded brain EEGs while infants experienced different forms of stimulation, including a painful heel stick.
Because a teen's brain is seeking this new stimulation and can't always put the breaks on a bad idea, a friend's suggestion to «have fun» by painting graffiti on the high school is tempting, regardless of the consequences.
«While electrical stimulation of the brain is emerging as potential therapy for a wide range of neurological and psychiatric diseases, little is known about its effect on memory,» says Gregory Worrell, M.D., Ph.D., a Mayo Clinic neurologist and senior author of the article.
It is a big step toward the goal of pain science, which is to zero in on the brain region or regions altered by chronic pain and devise a treatment (a drug or maybe electrical stimulation) that can correct the malfunctioning neurons in that zone.
BOSTON — Conflicting results on whether brain stimulation helps or hinders memory may be explained by the electrodes» precise location: whether they're tickling white matter or gray matter.
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.
But scientists can do more with brainwaves than just listen in on the brain at work - they can selectively control brain function by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
One experimental group received only cognitive training; the second group received cognitive training and exercise; and the third group received cognitive training, exercise and noninvasive brain stimulation delivered by electrodes on the scalp.
«And research has shown that specific brain stimulation protocols can enhance cognitive performance, prompting us to investigate their effects on cognitive training.»
Neuroscientists have also developed transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which uses magnets held against the scalp to induce electric fields inside the brain, turning on neurons.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation lets us turn parts of the brain on or off at will.
He found that their speech was halted upon stimulation on the speech dominant side of the brain, but unaffected by stimulation on the non-dominate side.
It is one of several capitalising on a growing consensus that electrical stimulation can alter brain function to mitigate problems as diverse as depression and stroke and lack of focus.
Kadosh receives regular e-mails from people asking for advice on brain stimulation, or for explanations as to why it didn't work for them.
A report on the treatment is published in the journal Brain Stimulation.
Among the awardees are researchers working on ultrasound methods for measuring brain activity, and the use of deep brain stimulation to treat traumatic brain injuries.
When this article was first published on 26 February 2014, it did not acknowledge that the first trial of deep brain stimulation in a minimally conscious person was a team effort.
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.
The researchers found that patients treated with deep brain stimulation survived an average of 6.3 years after the surgery, versus 5.7 years for the non-DBS patients after the date they might have gotten surgery based on their match to a surgery patient — a difference of eight months.
«The idea that weak electrical stimulation of the brain could produce beneficial effects on depression symptoms is somewhat surprising,» said Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry.
«Our study suggests that direct current stimulation can compensate somewhat for the loss of dopamine by decreasing the effort the brain has to put into getting its motor neurons to fire,» adds Shadmehr, the senior author of a report on the research published online in The Journal of Neuroscience on Sept. 2.
The study — which included tests on pilgrims taking part in the famous Camino de Santiago and a brain stimulation experiment — found no link between intuitive / analytical thinking, or cognitive inhibition (an ability to suppress unwanted thoughts and actions), and supernatural beliefs.
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) passes a weak current through the brain, altering the likelihood of neurons passing on signals.
The researchers used repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on a specific area of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to briefly alter activity in this brain region and consequently change the amount of punishment a person doled out.
The researchers in this study used repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on a specific area of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to briefly alter activity in this brain region and consequently change the amount of punishment a person doled out.
Here the results showed that a single stimulation had different effects on the behavior of neurons in each layer because even when the overall state of the brain changed, layers had distinctive characteristics.
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.
A forthcoming report from the meeting will also examine other ethical issues researchers might need to consider, including the largely unknown, long - term effects of stimulation on the brain, and how to obtain proper consent from participants.
One of the Johns Hopkins student inventors demonstrates how the noninvasive brain stimulation prototype would fit on a Parkinson's patient's head.
Given the complexity and scale of the interfaces required, Shepard and his team believe that the degree of noninvasiveness required for human use within this aggressive time frame can only be achieved with electrode architectures based on stimulation and recording at the brain surface.
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.
Research led by the University of Kent shows stimulation of the brain impacts on endurance exercise performance by decreasing perception of effort.
«Our study suggests that a focal brain intervention, deep brain stimulation, may have an impact on the circuitry of symptoms that serve to maintain anorexia and make it so difficult to treat.»
Patients affected by Parkinson's disease often show marked changes in body weight: they may gain or lose a lot of weight depending on the stage of the disease, or they may put on up to ten kilos after deep brain stimulation (a treatment to alleviate the symptoms).
In a brain slice, Olivia Masseck measures the activity of nerve cells in which she switches on their receptors using light stimulation.
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.
«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.
Mind controls: Electrodes sitting on the brain's surface Epidural cortical stimulation is a halfway house: you do get a hole in your head, but no wires in the brain, and it has helped severely depressed people
Once I obtained aggressive behaviors in rats by stimulating specific areas of the brain, I started asking whether they liked or disliked the feelings by having them press a lever to turn the stimulation on or off.
What develops the brain is stimulation — the process of synaptic architecture depends on stimuli — it strengthens the connections needed and prunes those not needed.