Sentences with phrase «brain stimulation techniques»

Brain stimulation technique activates buried neurons without needing to perform risky surgery.

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.

Sellaro and her fellow researchers were the first to investigate whether the application of a non-invasive, painless brain stimulation technique called transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), reduces prejudice.

In his 1969 book Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society, Delgado extolled the promise of brain stimulation techniques for curbing violent aggression and other maladaptive traits.

Until recently the only treatments available for conditions affecting the brain were drugs or surgery — a «hammer over the head approach», according to William Tyler, a biomedical engineer at Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in Roanoke and a pioneer of the new brain stimulation techniques.

Cases of savant syndrome have inspired an electrical brain stimulation technique for boosting creative insight

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.

The study, presented April 2 at the annual meeting of Cognitive Neuroscience Society, represents one of the first attempts to successfully apply brain stimulation techniques to a clinical population, he said.

What's more, Rose writes, «the results have exciting implications if noninvasive brain stimulation techniques can be used to reactivate and potentially strengthen latent memories» — in other words, recovering information that had been forever lost.

The researchers used non-invasive brain stimulation techniques to disrupt activation in the so called «temporo - parietal junction,» a region at the side towards the back of the brain.

Simon Davis and colleagues used a brain stimulation technique known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to modulate brain activity of healthy older adults while they performed a memory task.

«Non-invasive brain stimulation technique could transform learning.»

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

In order to modulate the functioning of fronto - striatal circuits, the researchers from the lab of Robert Zatorre used a non-invasive brain stimulation technique, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which uses magnetic pulses to either stimulate or inhibit selected parts of the brain.

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.

«We know that cognitive impairment can be devastating for people with schizophrenia and there is a push to look at solutions, including medication options, brain training and brain stimulation techniques,» said lead author Gagan Fervaha, a researcher in the Complex Mental Illness program at CAMH and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto.

Researchers used a brain stimulation technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation to reduce the brain's response to drug cues in chronic drug users.