Sentences with phrase «brain stimulation patients»

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.

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Among 22 patients, the researchers found enhanced memory performance in the four patients with stimulation of the lateral temporal cortex but not among those with the other brain regions stimulated.

Ang and co-workers, in collaboration with researchers across Singapore and in Australia, wanted to investigate whether patients could get better at using a BCI if their brain was first subjected to transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)-- the application of an external electric current to the skull.

Patients recalled more words from a previously viewed list when low - amplitude electrical stimulation was delivered to the brain.

To answer these questions, a team of MUSC investigators led by stroke neurologist and physician - scientist Wayne Feng, M.D., MS, attempted something that has never before been tried — they directly measured tDCS - generated EFs in vivo using deep brain stimulation (DBS) electrodes that were already implanted in patients with Parkinson's disease.

According to Dr. Tsai, growing evidence shows the efficacy of deep brain stimulation in patients with neuropsychiatric diseases.

These tools will advance fundamental brain research and potentially lead to «deep brain stimulation» treatments used for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients.

These brain abnormalities mediated the increased unpleasantness to visual, auditory and tactile stimulation that patients reported to experience in daily life.

«Correct connections are crucial: Individualizing deep brain stimulation in patients with Parkinson's disease.»

The researchers are planning to conduct further studies to develop a patient - specific, «made - to - measure» method of brain stimulation.

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.

Scientists enrolled patients with Parkinson's disease who were scheduled to have deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery, a commonly used procedure that involves placing electrodes into the brain.

1987 In the first reported therapeutic use of high - frequency deep - brain stimulation (DBS), French doctors implanted electrodes in a patient's brain to send impulses to a region associated with Parkinson's disease.

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.

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.

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.

In humans, this region could be a target for bringing some brain injury patients out of a comatose state via electrical stimulation, says lead author Nigel Pedersen, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and an epilepsy specialist at Emory Brain Health Cebrain injury patients out of a comatose state via electrical stimulation, says lead author Nigel Pedersen, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and an epilepsy specialist at Emory Brain Health CeBrain Health Center.

«Deep brain stimulation: A new treatment approach in patients with multiple sclerosis.»

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.

Guessing that the reduced ability to control force in patients with PD was related to decreased dopamine — which makes it harder to «recruit» neurons for a particular task — the researchers devised a brain stimulation experiment to further test their hypothesis.

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

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

«Complication risk of deep brain stimulation similar for older, younger Parkinson patients.»

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.

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.

«We measured the electrical activity of groups of nerve cells within the subthalamic nucleus in patients with Parkinson's disease, who had recently been treated with deep brain stimulation.

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.

One of the Johns Hopkins student inventors demonstrates how the noninvasive brain stimulation prototype would fit on a Parkinson's patient's head.

For patients in advanced stages, one treatment option is deep brain stimulation.

A doctor examines C.T. scans from a patient before performing deep brain stimulation surgery to alleviate tremors.

To augment speech and language therapy, the traditional treatment for patients with primary progressive aphasia, Hillis is also studying the use of transcranial direct current stimulation of the brain's interior front gyrus.

Patients already are being treated with some success by deep - brain electrical stimulation of nerve cells.

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

The study looked at how safe deep brain stimulation was for patients with anorexia, and how it affected their BMI, mood, anxiety and wellbeing.

For years, deep - brain stimulation — in which a neurosurgeon drills a hole in the skull and inserts an electrode far into a patient's brain tissue — was considered a radical treatment, reserved for the most severe cases of Parkinson's disease.

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.

Parkinson's patients may be somewhat lacking in this respect and therefore eat less and lose weight, whereas the weight gain exhibited after deep brain stimulation seems to point to an increase in pleasure and motivation associated with food.

The study — conducted in collaboration with the Santa Maria della Misericordia University Hospital in Udine, under the leadership of Raffella Rumiati, in charge of SISSA neuroscience and society lab — has involved 18 Parkinsonian patients who underwent deep brain stimulation and 18 healthy volunteers.

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).

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

As next steps, Dr. Meltzer will use these findings to explore targeted brain stimulation that could boost the short - term memory of stroke patients.

«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.»

All patients underwent deep brain stimulation, which involves implanting electrodes and stimulating areas of the brain that control dysfunctional behaviours.

However, as early as 2002, Olaf Blanke and others induced OBEs by focal electrical stimulation of the brain's right angular gyrus in a patient undergoing treatment for epilepsy (Nature, vol 419, p 269).

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.