Sentences with phrase «brain stimulation therapies»

The findings help explain why the neural circuit identified is a promising target for additional treatment development, including brain stimulation therapies.

«This level of specificity has not yet been accomplished in current deep brain stimulation therapies.»

«Scientists manipulate consciousness in rats: Study may guide deep brain stimulation therapies used for neurological disorders.»

Led by investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), the findings suggest that brain networks — the interconnected pathways that link brain circuits to one another — can help guide site selection for brain stimulation therapies.

Update, 1 November, 3:01 p.m.: This story has been updated to reflect additional NIH - funded efforts to support researchers as they develop new brain stimulation therapies.

«Systems approaches to optimizing deep brain stimulation therapies in Parkinson's disease.»

«This study illustrates the potential of gaining fundamental insights into brain function while helping patients with debilitating diseases, and provides us with a powerful way of selecting targets based on their connectivity to other regions that can be widely applied to help guide brain stimulation therapy across multiple neurological and psychiatric disorders.»

Shepherd Center patient Kim Mullins participates in a Nexstim clinical trial testing a brain stimulation therapy for people who have had a stroke.

This brain stimulation therapy is reserved for the most severe cases.

Not exact matches

Such therapies can include vision exercises, left brain exercises, on - ice - tailored drills, cold laser therapy, gyrostim treatments, and cranial nerve stimulation.

«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.

Currently there is no cure for Parkinson's, but the disease can be managed through deep - brain stimulation surgery, physical therapy and medications that increase dopamine signaling in the brain.

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.

Individuals whose brains exhibit the at - risk signatures may be more likely to benefit from strategies that boost the brain's dorsolateral prefrontal activity, including cognitive behavioral therapy, working memory training, or transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

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.

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.

Researchers have developed a method to measure how the brain responds to electrical stimulation and use the response to maximize efficacy of deep brain stimulation (DBS)-- a therapy that has been successfully used to treat advanced stages of Parkinson's disease.

Such studies could guide still - experimental therapies such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, which aims to suppress or boost brain activity in targeted areas through electrical currents.

Scientists hope to ease the mental burden of diseases such as anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder by selectively targeting traumatic memories with behavioral therapy, drugs, ECT and milder forms of brain stimulation.

These findings open the door for researchers to potentially explore therapies that could target this area of the brain and disrupt its role in addiction, potentially with new drugs or other techniques such as deep brain stimulation or transcranial magnetic stimulation.

These include electroconvulsive therapy or ECT, deep - brain stimulation or DBS, and transcranial magnetic stimulation or TMS.

«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.

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.

The activation of these cells in the basal ganglia relieves symptoms for much longer than current therapies, like deep brain stimulation and pharmaceuticals.

Eligible clinical trial participants receive either the navigated brain stimulation or a sham (simulated) treatment in conjunction with six weeks of hand and arm therapy provided by an occupational therapist.

Weill Cornell is the birthplace of many medical advances — including the development of the Pap test for cervical cancer, the synthesis of penicillin, the first successful embryo - biopsy pregnancy and birth in the U.S., the first clinical trial of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, and most recently, the world's first successful use of deep brain stimulation to treat a minimally conscious brain - injured patient.

It isn't too different from how electroshock therapy works to counter certain mental illnesses and how deep - brain stimulation smooths motion disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

Bottom Line: Young mice that received molecularly targeted therapies used to treat brain cancer in human patients sustained cognitive and behavioral deficits, but the deficits were largely reversible through environmental stimulation and physical exercise.

NYC Neuromodulation 2017 will focus on technologies and mechanism for advanced brain stimulation in areas that include transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), high - definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD - tDCS), electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), deep brain stimulation (DBS), and other emerging areas.

One approach used by doctors at UCLA and a handful of other centers nationwide is to beam magnetic pulses deep into patients» brains, a therapy known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).

For example, deep brain stimulation (DBS)-- delivering an electrical current into the brain to modify nerve activity — has become a standard therapy for Parkinson's disease (PD), and it is now being adapted to treat a range of other conditions including depression and obsessive - compulsive disorder.

Although optogenetics is not yet possible in humans, Dr. Paz believes we may be able to use similar therapies like deep brain stimulation to target a specific area in real time to stop a seizure.

In fact, some emerging therapies for depression use electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve to trigger changes in the brain.»

(In return, the brain receives significant stimulation from each muscle cell, or fiber — the reason why movement is a powerful brain therapy.)

Physical therapy, massage, electrostimulation, tactile stimulation and movement in space and time all stimulate nerve impulses up toward the brain.

Mindfulness - based therapies (DBT, MBCT, ACT); Positive Psychology, CBT, EMDR, health psychology, biofeedback, clinical hypnosis, behavioral medicine, relaxation training, cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES), Graded Motor Imagery with Mirror Box therapy, Motivational Interviewing for behavior change, anxiety, depression, stress, chronic pain, brain injuries, stroke recovery, PTSD

Hypnosis, brain spotting, the M - wave, and visualization, are methods of cognitive behavioral therapy that can help reduce anxiety or stress by changing how the brain responds to stimulation.

ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY Also known as ECT, this highly controversial technique uses low voltage electrical stimulation of the brain to treat some forms of major depression, acute mania, and some forms of schizophrenia.

EMDR therapy utilizes sequential bi-lateral stimulation of the brain through eye movements, tapping or sounds.

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